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In the Body thief it says:Damage done to a host body does not harm the intellect devourer, and if the host body is slain, the intellect devourer emerges and is dazed for 1 round.
So how many HP does a dead body have?
Body Thief (Su) As a full-round action that provokes an attack of opportunity, an intellect devourer can reduce its size, crawl into the mouth of a helpless or dead creature, and burrow into the victim's skull to devour its brain. This is a coup de grace attempt that inflicts 8d4+3d6+8 points of damage. If the victim is slain (or already dead), the intellect devourer usurps control of the body and may use it as its own, as if it controlled the target via a dominate monster spell. The intellect devourer has full access to all of the host's defensive and offensive abilities save for spellcasting and spell-like abilities (although the intellect devourer can still use its own spell-like abilities). A host body may not have been dead for longer than 1 day for this ability to function, and even successfully inhabited bodies decay to uselessness in 7 days (unless this time is extended via gentle repose). As long as the intellect devourer occupies the body, it knows (and can speak) the languages known by the victim and basic information about the victim's identity and personality, yet has none of the victim's specific memories or knowledge. Raise dead cannot restore a victim of body theft, but resurrection or more powerful magic can.
In the Body thief it says:Damage done to a host body does not harm the intellect devourer, and if the host body is slain, the intellect devourer emerges and is dazed for 1 round.
So how many HP does a dead body have?
I ran an encounter with an intellect devourer recently. I played it as the "body" being the equivalent of whatever is was in life - minus specific knowledge, spells and spell like ability.
So in my case it was a morlock barbarian with all of the powers, abilities, and HP's it had in life.
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I ran an encounter with an intellect devourer recently. I played it as the "body" being the equivalent of whatever is was in life - minus specific knowledge, spells and spell like ability.
So in my case it was a morlock barbarian with all of the powers, abilities, and HP's it had in life.
That's the right way to handle it, with the intellect devourer's spell-like abilities available to it, of course.
So, when the Intellect Devourer inhabits the body, that body is restored to the full hit points it could have possessed while still alive? I think that was the original question.
So, when the Intellect Devourer inhabits the body, that body is restored to the full hit points it could have possessed while still alive? I think that was the original question.
Yes, that is what I was saying. All of the HP's it had in life.
I think that is the intended use of the intellect devourer's power - to be everything the person was in life, minus anything that came from it's now devoured intellect.
It's not explicit in the text, but in effect the intellect devourer kills the creature and then immediately brings it back to life (sans brain) like a true resurrection. Otherwise, the mechanics are as previous posters have said.
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I ran an encounter with an intellect devourer recently. I played it as the "body" being the equivalent of whatever is was in life - minus specific knowledge, spells and spell like ability.
So in my case it was a morlock barbarian with all of the powers, abilities, and HP's it had in life.
This is exactly the way to handle it.
It's like when a ghost possesses someone, sort of.
You kill or defeat the body it's inside of (encounter one, using the host body's stats), and then the monster comes out and you fight it next (encounter two, using the intellect devourer's stats).
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I ran an encounter with an intellect devourer recently. I played it as the "body" being the equivalent of whatever is was in life - minus specific knowledge, spells and spell like ability.
So in my case it was a morlock barbarian with all of the powers, abilities, and HP's it had in life.
This is exactly the way to handle it.
It's like when a ghost possesses someone, sort of.
You kill or defeat the body it's inside of (encounter one, using the host body's stats), and then the monster comes out and you fight it next (encounter two, using the intellect devourer's stats).
Thank you all; that was my thinking as well but wanted to make sure I was on the right track.
