Can you kick-start a Bloody Skeleton from 0hp by healing it with negative energy instead of waiting the hour for it to come back on its own?
I would say 'no', it's still destroyed at 0 hp and a destroyed undead can't be healed. In the hour it takes to regain 1 hp I wouldn't consider it an undead creature, just the remains of one. So it wouldn't show up with detect undead or similar.
I would say 'no', it's still destroyed at 0 hp and a destroyed undead can't be healed. In the hour it takes to regain 1 hp I wouldn't consider it an undead creature, just the remains of one. So it wouldn't show up with detect undead or similar.
Which raises a secondary question, if it isn't counted as undead at this point, would that then make it immune to positive energy/holy water damage that would otherwise destroy it?
I would say 'no', it's still destroyed at 0 hp and a destroyed undead can't be healed. In the hour it takes to regain 1 hp I wouldn't consider it an undead creature, just the remains of one. So it wouldn't show up with detect undead or similar.Which raises a secondary question, if it isn't counted as undead at this point, would that then make it immune to positive energy/holy water damage that would otherwise destroy it?
I wouldn't think so. If the deathless can define how it comes back it can also define what prevents it from coming back.
I see it a bit like the reincarnated druid archetype it's reincarnate class ability works even if it's dead, otherwise it does nothing which was hardly the point.
It doesn't mean that all abilities are retained in death/destruction, just these two and those similar.
Well, here's hoping my GM lets me heal it to get it going again.
*fingers crossed*
Well, here's hoping my GM lets me heal it to get it going again.
*fingers crossed*
for that, in my games I do allow a variant casting of animate dead without the material component to reanimate bloody skeletons of HD up to what can be animated by the spell.
A 3rd level spell slot seems a fair price for that, a single wand charge or 1st level spell slot seems a little cheep in a dungeon crawl where time is a factor.
You could suggest that.
Can you kick-start a Bloody Skeleton from 0hp by healing it with negative energy instead of waiting the hour for it to come back on its own?
nope.
The same way that you cant normally heal a normal skeleton or undead when at 0 hp.
At zero HP it is utterly completely destroyed.
After 1 hour, it starts to come back to life on its own.
There a lot of undead with this "resurrection" ability. It can't be accelerated.
Another way to think of it is like a lich. You can kill a lich. But it takes a about a week for the lich to come back. This time period can not be accelerated.
Well, here's hoping my GM lets me heal it to get it going again.
*fingers crossed*
for that, in my games I do allow a variant casting of animate dead without the material component to reanimate bloody skeletons of HD up to what can be animated by the spell.
A 3rd level spell slot seems a fair price for that, a single wand charge or 1st level spell slot seems a little cheep in a dungeon crawl where time is a factor.
You could suggest that.
I shall, it is a homebrew game and he even let us design our own races (20rp, no monstrous traits, but WOW!).
Thanks for the idea.