"Constructs are treated as living creatures"

[Big Lemon]

The Impossible Bloodline wrote:

Constructs are susceptible to your enchantment (compulsion) spells as if they were not mind-affecting.

Constructs are treated as living creatures for the purposes of determining which spells affect them.

What, exactly, does that part mean? Does this, for example, get around a construct's immunity to necromancy spells and disease?

[boring7]

Yes.

I mean, Disease won't work because even though the SPELL will infect the cosntruct, the disease won't actually function on it, but necromancy will.

[Ascalaphus]

No. The previous sentence provides the necessary context to interpret the bolded sentence.

Normally constructs are immune to compulsions. However, for an impossible sorcerer, they can be affected with compulsions that can affect living creatures. Compulsions that only work on undead (if any such exist) wouldn't work on them.

[Claxon]

Basically, spells which have specific target requirements like being a living creature (see Slay Living) would now work on the construct.

However, the construct may still be otherwise immune the the effects of the spell.

How it's supposed to work is a little unclear.

[graystone]

The main benefit is that spells like cure light wounds now work on them.
They are conjuration (healing), so they otherwise work on them.
Constructs normally cannot heal damage on its own and can only be healed with specialty spells.

The best use of the Impossible Bloodline that I've found is one level of sorcerer multiclassed with a healing class. It's even better is you happen to be a Wyrwood and you can now heal yourself.

[The Beardinator]

Why in the Nine Hells would you make constructs "living creatures"? They aren't! They don't have feelings, cant reproduce, (for good reasons), they don't need to eat or drink or breath. I personally like the idea of my Iron Golem plowing his way through a horde of undead to reach the squishy necromancer and punch his face through the other side of his skull. Now, the superior Iron Golem can be tripped up by an upstart zombie or insanely lucky necromancer who gets across the right spell that the Indomitable Iron Golem should be immune too. Next, you're going to say that dwarves aren't the best at holding a defensive line......

[Canthin]

The Beardinator wrote:

Why in the Nine Hells would you make constructs "living creatures"? They aren't! They don't have feelings,...

Johny 5 doesn't agree with you :P

[Azten]

And Wyrwoods can reproduce by making more of their race. Literally. It's in their flavor.