Turning incorporeal: How does it change your attacks?


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Liberty's Edge

Neither the incorporeal subtype nor the monster ability give fully explicit rulings on how attacks work while incorporeal. Gaseous form has specific rules, but obviously those can't generally apply.

From the incorporeal monster ability, you lose your Strength score and get your Dexterity modifier to attack rolls. You also get to bypass armor, natural armor, and shields. Can creatures who become incorporeal make attacks with their normal weapons with no other alterations?


You can't weild a corporeal weapon as an incorporeal creature unless it has ghost touch.


Gaseous form doesn't make you incorporeal. Are we assuming something like the Undead Bloodline Incorporeal Form power? I'm guessing that turns your equipment incorporeal too.

Incorporeals "cannot take any physical action that would move or manipulate an opponent or its equipment". That implies you have no physical attacks save those that are specifically given to you by whatever it was that turned you incorporeal.

You could make a reasonable case that if you're carrying a magic weapon when turned incorporeal that it should be able to do half damage to corporeal enemies, but I don't think there's any support for that in RAW.

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