Can undead be feinted?


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Or what exactly are the undead immunities now?

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Ninjaofthesea wrote:
Or what exactly are the undead immunities now?

From the PRD:

Pathfinder Reference Document wrote:

Feinting is a standard action. ...

Against a creature lacking an Intelligence score, it's impossible.

Nonintelligent undead are immune to it as they have no Int score, but intelligent undead are subject to it.


Can you feint a brain eating zombie or a mindless skeleton, is sort of like asking whether you can trip an ooze. The rules as written often allow things that are nonsensical or counter intuitive, and the DM has to decide if it works or not.

If you want to look at the specific undead immunites, the pathfinder bestiary preview is a free download, and it specifies undead immunites. Being feinted is not specifically listed among them, but I believe it is for a DM to decide.

Edit: Got ninja'd while writing this post. I didn't know the PRD specified it didn't work against non-intelligent foes.
Edit2: just checked combat section of PRD, you cannot actually trip an ooze (you can in 4ed). Please disregard this post.

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Dilvish the Danged wrote:
Edit: Got ninja'd while writing this post. I didn't know the PRD specified it didn't work against non-intelligent foes.

The d20 SRD does as well.

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