Regeneneration


Rules Questions


For trolls, what does "Regeneration5" mean? Does it mean that the regenerate 5 HP per turn?


Yes, at the start of their turn they regenerate 5 hitpoints.
This is stopped if they took fire or acid damage since the beginning/end of their previous turn.


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Regeneration (Ex)

A creature with this ability is difficult to kill. Creatures with regeneration heal damage at a fixed rate, as with fast healing, but they cannot die as long as their regeneration is still functioning (although creatures with regeneration still fall unconscious when their hit points are below 0). Certain attack forms, typically fire and acid, cause a creature’s regeneration to stop functioning on the round following the attack. During this round, the creature does not heal any damage and can die normally. The creature's descriptive text describes the types of damage that cause the regeneration to cease functioning.

Attack forms that don’t deal hit point damage are not healed by regeneration. Regeneration also does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation. Regenerating creatures can regrow lost portions of their bodies and can reattach severed limbs or body parts if they are brought together within 1 hour of severing. Severed parts that are not reattached wither and die normally.

A creature must have a Constitution score to have the regeneration ability.


Yeah Drakkiel, I read that, but it didn`t explain what the "5" meant.... I assumed it meant 5 points per round, but I didn`t know what time segment it referred to, round, hour, day etc.

5 HP per round sounded a bit fast to me....

Thanks, Rickmeister.


Well I tried to answer with a yes but my phone wouldn't post it...so I jumped on my laptop and decided to post the whole thing and forgot the "yes" lol


Key phrase for determining how to read a regeneration entry:

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as with fast healing

Fast healing then says this:

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A creature with the fast healing special quality regains hit points at an exceptional rate, usually 1 or more hit points per round, as given in the creature’s entry.

The last phrase of the sentence being the final step in tying the whole package together.


Drakkiel wrote:
Well I tried to answer with a yes but my phone wouldn't post it...so I jumped on my laptop and decided to post the whole thing and forgot the "yes" lol

thanks!

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