Dhampir and Incorporeal Undead


Rules Questions


I am currently running Carrion Crown, and one of the characters is a Dhampir. While this has made for some amusing times as the he desperately tries to avoid any damage at all (there is no one who can channel negative energy in the party), I have a concern about an upcoming fight with an incorporeal undead.

Since he has negative energy affinity and is healed by negative energy rather than harmed, it would seem that enemies such as ghosts or wraiths who do touch attacks with negative energy, he would actually be healed by their attacks! This seems like it is going to trivialize the encounter for him, and I was wondering if such attacks wouldn't actually work as a "channel negative energy to harm", where they can only harm living creatures and not heal undead. Specific details on fight below.

CC Fight:
They are about to fight the Lopper who is a variant wraith. He has a bleed effect attached to his negative energy touch attack that heals him every time the bleed deals damage. His main tactic is to move around the room and put a bleed on everyone so that he is healing quickly. The main concern for me is that if his negative energy heals, it will immediately remove the bleed effect, making the Lopper unable to harm this PC in any way.

Contributor

Just as disrupt undead emits positive energy but doesn't heal living creatures, negative energy attacks don't heal undead creatures unless the attack specifically says it does. So the dhampir is just as vulnerable as a human to these attacks.


Thank you very much!

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