Vilkacis silver vulnerability and incorporealness


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Vilkacis is incorporeal, so it takes no damage from non-magical weapons and only 50% of damage from magical weapons that lack the ghost touch property.

Vilkacis has vulnerability to silver.

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Vilkacis are particularly susceptible to silver. A vilkacis struck with a silver weapon takes an additional 2d6 points of damage. If a creature under the effects of a vilkacis’s bestial possession is damaged by a silver weapon, it also takes this extra damage and receives another saving throw to resist the bestial possession. If successful, the possession ends, and the vilkacis is driven into an adjacent square and cannot use its bestial possession ability again until the following day.

Does the additional 2d6 points of damage from the weapon being silver get halved when the vilkacis is incorporeal too?


Unless the weapon has the ghost touch property, yes.


Glad I found this post, as I was I going to ask something along this vein when my party ran into this critter last night.

So, magical silver weapon, half ALL the damage, including the 2d6 from Silver.

But the main question that came up in my group was, what about non-magical silver weapons? Would the 2d6 (halved or full) from the silver vulnerability still be applied, even if the weapon itself did no damage? Or would firing non-magical silver arrows at it do NOTHING, due to it being incorporeal?

Hoping someone has the answers, as they are going to have to face the Vilkacis again in the next session...

Scarab Sages

Where can I find this Vilkacis monster that you are discussing? I've looked in all of the following books: Bestiary I,II,II, Bonus Bestiary, and the Revisited PDFs.


Ramses wrote:
Where can I find this Vilkacis monster that you are discussing? I've looked in all of the following books: Bestiary I,II,II, Bonus Bestiary, and the Revisited PDFs.

vilkacis

It's from the Carrion Crown AP.

Scarab Sages

Thank you very much for letting me know where to find it

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