Undead Bloodline arcana and mindless undead


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The undead bloodline arcana allows among other things, for you to affect once-human undead with mind-affecting spells. This includes Ghouls, wights, vampires, ghosts etc. But what about basic human skeletons and zombies who have no Int? Does the mindless trump the bloodline arcana?


All undead are immune to mind-affecting spells, whether they have intelligence or not. This arcana explicitly states that corporeal undead that were once humanoids are vulnerable to your mind-affecting spells. There is no distinction for those with and without and intelligence score, so yes it works. This bloodline arcana explicitly trumps the immunity.


However it doesn't trump the individual wording of the spells. So stuff like hideous laughter still doesn't really work.

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