Too many serious threads lately, so here's a bit of an oddball one.
The ring of regeneration states: "If the wearer loses a limb, an organ, or any other body part while wearing this ring, the ring regenerates it as the spell. In either case, only damage taken while wearing the ring is regenerated."
Since rings are worn on hands... if the wearer loses the arm that the ring is being worn on, does the arm grow back on the original body, or does the arm with the ring regrow a brand new body attached to it?
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Too many serious threads lately, so here's a bit of an oddball one.
The ring of regeneration states: "If the wearer loses a limb, an organ, or any other body part while wearing this ring, the ring regenerates it as the spell. In either case, only damage taken while wearing the ring is regenerated."
Since rings are worn on hands... if the wearer loses the arm that the ring is being worn on, does the arm grow back on the original body, or does the arm with the ring regrow a brand new body attached to it?
If a new arm grows back on the original body, does a new ring appear on that new arm?
I think it should grow a new body. Fun times fun times
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I say that the arm with ring regrows a new body (to keep there from being multiple of the same ring around).
This makes it a great ring for a rogue who disarms really awful traps. Just make sure that you leave the finger with the ring with your party. That way if the rogue dies from a bad trap, they can get them back in 2d10 rounds, and if they survive, you just have to touch the finger stump back to the hand and have them normal again in 1 round.
So if you get a brand new body... who does the player play? Both characters? Do they have the same memories of the previous one? Is this a way to get a massive level 20 fighter army without having to level everybody up?
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So, the severed arm with the ring grows a new body, yet the original body doesn't die, because of quick action by the party healer. Does this mean that the player now gets to play 2 identical characters, except for the obvious difference that one of them is missing an arm? Does the new body have a goatee? Does Kirk cleverly convince evil Spock to work for good and take over the enterprise, and save the day? Who gets to sleep with the hot brunette who comes with the evil-alternate-universe enterprise?
If I am nice I would let the characters arm that was cut off regrow because the ring was being worn when the arm was cut off. But I wouldn't let the severed arm grow into a new person.
If the ring of regeneration can regenerate you back from dead, then the arm can grow a new body, but if it cannot, then the arm that is severed dies and cannot regenerate.
01101 has it right if you ask me. The body would still have basic motor functions and have the same stats as the once PC. You do risk them just trying to walk away with your equipment and leaving you naked. This is assuming in your campaign someone needs a soul to live, one can argue that even if a body has no soul, they can live but be without a personality.
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Is a severed hand a living creature?
Answer no, so it cannot benefit from the ring.
Are you wearing the ring when you lose the hand?
Maybe probably not.
I would as a house rule to allow a character that was wearing the ring 3 rounds, the normal casting time of regenerate, to reattach the hand as the spell indicates.
Or just for fun go "Idol Hands" on the party. Great movie.
I can accept any of these rulings, as long as there is a goatee involved. Otherwise, you have strayed way outside RAW, my friend. ie. RAW says evil-twins have goatees.
I can accept any of these rulings, as long as there is a goatee involved. Otherwise, you have strayed way outside RAW, my friend. ie. RAW says evil-twins have goatees.
I must agree, although, there are some extenuating circumstances that allow one to go without the evil goatee.