One of the limits of the spell, Create Treasure Map, is that it must be cast within 24 hours of the creature dying. Does this mean that it will not work on an creature like a wight, ghost or lich if it has been undead for longer than one day?
I can see an argument for both sides of this. If there was to be a restriction on undead, it would have clearly stated that in the description of the spell, right? So as long as you cast the spell within 24 hours after "killing" the undead, it should work.
However, undead are already dead, and you do not actually kill them, but destroy them instead. Their actual deaths may have happened years earlier, if not centuries. The spell only applies to the recently living...not recently animated.
Well it definitely won't work on a ghost or other incorporeal undead. It won't work on a mindless undead. It won't work on an undead without any flat skin or scales.
And RAW would seem to indicate that it wouldn't work on undead - unless they happened to have died recently. I suppose it could be a useful spell for a sorcerer or wizard who's animating his enemies after killing them anyhow. Take a chunk of hide off a body, make the map, animate the body as a zombie, and then put the map back where it came from when you're finished with it.
I agree, undead are not killed, but are destroyed upon reaching 0 hp. The "death date" would be when they died before becoming an undead. In other words, it would have to be used on an undead that had died and been raised within 24hrs.
What constitutes a "treasure" to an undead creature anyway?
What constitutes a "treasure" to an undead creature anyway?
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