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Undead Healing, post-Book of the Dead
Scarab Sages

Hi all! I know there are some older threads about healing undead, but I wanted to ask a few questions now that Basic Undead Benefits and the like exist. Here's a few things that I think I understand but may be wrong:

  • Dhampir and Revenants are living creatures, but with the negative healing ability that prevents positive healing and makes them count as undead for negative healing.
  • Skeletons, ghouls, vampires etc are undead but with the basic undead benefits, which prevents positive healing but not other sources of healing.

    So given that, is this correct for these potential healing sources?

  • Heal doesn't work on anything with negative healing, undead, or basic undead benefits traits/abilities.
  • Harm works on all of the above.
  • Soothe is written as working on undead (AON, Healing Undead), but targets a 'willing living creature'. This should work on Dhampir and Revenants as it isn't positive, but how can it target undead or basic undead benefits characters?
  • In the same section about Healing Undead, an Elixir of Life is mentioned as not working. This sorta makes sense given the mention of living creatures in the text there, but how can it not work if Soothe supposedly does work?

    Those are my main questions for now, please set me straight on anything I'm misunderstanding. Thanks!

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    Fighter Grappling Options ~or~ Remember the Basics of CQC
    Scarab Sages

    Hi, apologies for this not being a Fully Researched Thread, but I was looking into Snagging Strike and related grappling feats on fighter, and noticed that few or any of them seem to actually require Athletics checks to apply their conditions.

    Would therefore a more dex-focused melee build work just as well with those sorts of feats, while avoiding the need for the heavier armors in order to keep oneself mobile? I could see it maybe mixed in with some of the dueling hand-free feats as well. Is having a strength-based Athletics score valuable for other combat reasons, such as actually having a chance at critically succeeding on a grapple check?
    Do Dark Matter and Dermal Plating stack? (AKA, what is natural DR?)
    Scarab Sages

    So, Dermal Plating has rules about stacking with 'natural damage reduction' (the lesser of the natural DR or plating providing an additional +1,) but what counts as natural? Does an ability like the Solarian's Dark Matter count as a non-technological or 'natural' source? Thanks!
    Charging Stag Bloody-Knuckled Rowdy
    Scarab Sages

    Ok, so this is is silly but please consider the following (keeping it PFS-legal as far as I'm aware):

    Human Bloodrager (Bloody-Knuckled Rowdy, Crossblooded Rager [Aberrant/Abyssal])
    STR 15+2, DEX 14, CON 14, INT 8, WIS 10, CHA 14
    1: Dodge (Human feat), Mobility, Claws (Abyssal bloodline)
    2: Charging Stag Style (Combat Style Student feat)
    3: Stag Horns
    4: Demonic Bulk (Abyssal bloodline), STR +1
    5: Stag Submission, Combat Style Master (Combat Style Student feat)
    6: Improved Grapple (Aberrant feat)
    7: Combat Reflexes
    8: Abnormal Reach (Aberrant bloodline), STR +1
    9: Vicious Stomp, Power Attack (Abyssal feat)
    11: Greater Grapple
    12: Iron Will (Aberrant feat), Abyssal Bloodrage (Abyssal bloodline), STR +1

    I was looking through Secret Wizard's styles guide in YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD, and noted that Charging Stag style was listed as decent but lacking support. Charging Stag is also achievable by second level as a human, and being embarrassingly strong with a 15' reach seemed like it'd go with charging and grappling well enough.

    The claws make up for not having flurry of blows from a Monk dip (to a certain extent), and the unarmed damage scales from BKR in situations where the claws are unavailable. I haven't calculated exact numbers, but I'd bet such a character's CMB would be good enough to deal with many foes. (Roughly, I believe raging at 4th level would give a +13 CMB before later increases from Improved and Greater Grapple.)

    I'm thinking in terms of PFS, and I realize it's missing Bloodrager staples like Raging Vitality or Iron Will (until way later at least), but I wanted to type it out regardless. And it's a build that can actually make use of Power Attack as a bonus feat from the Abyssal bloodline, which is usually taken way earlier.

    So get angry, get big, and push down some nerds. Could be fun, at least until your poor defenses get you killed :D Any thoughts?
    Missing Dragon 336 and Dungeon 127?
    Scarab Sages

    I'm reasonably sure I haven't received either of these yet. 127 reports as having shipped on the 23rd of August, and 336 on the 30th of August. I may have both of 'em in my mailbox when I get home, but I thought I'd let someone know.

    I had trouble getting my copy of 334 as well - could it be that my local post office is sloppy?