Healing for creatures with no CON score

[Peter Kies]

After getting beat up by a wight whose behavior was written as "not to pursue", the PCs retreated, left the dungeon and rested overnight - coming back healed up and refreshed.

There is no evil cleric in the dungeon to hit the wight with negative energy.

Does the creature also regain hit points overnight? Have you seen a rule on this anywhere? In the absence of anything to the contrary, I think it should regain hit points just like a living creature. It is not a construct, and I would think the force that brought it to unlife would slowly creep back in unless it is destroyed.

[Halek]

Ok lets look at the undead type and we find

Cannot heal damage on its own if it has no Intelligence score, although it can be healed. Negative energy (such as an inflict spell) can heal undead creatures. The fast healing special quality works regardless of the creature’s Intelligence score.

So the wight has a intelligence score so it gets to regen hit points at the same rate as a living creature which is 1 hitpoint per day. It doesnt regain all its hitpoints. It only gains one though.

[Peter Kies]

I was going to go with 1 per HD and double for 24 hours of just waiting quietly.

It seems it should have more to do with HD than class levels.

[Halek]

It has nothing to do with any of that. It heals like a normal living creature which is 1 hit point per 8 hour rest per day. Nothing about being undead changes that. It heals as the same rate as the party fighter.

[Foeclan]

'With a full night’s rest (8 hours of sleep or more), you recover 1 hit point per character level.'. So it'd get back a number equal to its hit dice.

[Haladir]

You're the GM. When they return, just set the wight's hp at a point where you think it would be a challenge to the PCs. Keep it somewhat damaged to reflect their previous encounter, but change its tactics because now it knows how the PCs fight.

How would it heal? Maybe it had a potion of inflict moderate wounds. Maybe it prayed to the dark gods, who gave it a boon in return. As the GM, you're not strictly bound by the rules.

[VRMH]

Foeclan wrote:

'With a full night’s rest (8 hours of sleep or more)

Undead don't sleep though, do they? And being unnatural creatures, they shouldn't benefit from any natural healing.

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After taking damage, you can recover hit points through natural healing or through magical healing.

Those are the options and unless the Wight has a magical stash somewhere, it shouldn't heal.