Wilderness Soldiers and dead plants

[Tinalles]

Can the spell Wilderness Soldiers work with dead plants, or only living ones?

This came up last night in an area full of dead trees. The spell doesn't say itself. The GM ruled that it required living plants so that we could move on with the session, and suggested asking on here to see if anyone knows differently.

[Drakkiel]

I believe that when things are "dead" they are considered objects at that point. That may be a 3.5 thing in my head though.

I would say he was right, I would rule that you could only "direct" living plants. Maybe someone else can chime in with some quotes or something, I cannot search on my phone well so I'll see what I can find when I'm home.

[Tinalles]

That's reasonable, I guess. But a major bummer, since we spent half of a very long combat (14 rounds, almost 2 hours) maneuvering a peluda into position to get whomped on by some trees, only to discover the spell didn't work on dead trees.

Bleh!