Voidwalker (Ex): At 3rd level, you gain low-light vision and resist cold and fire 5. At 9th level, you no longer need to breathe, as if wearing a necklace of adaptation.
Okay, so I'm maybe 90% sure I understand this, but that 10% will drive me crazy if I don't ask. The character simply stops breathing, not getting the protective air bubble, right? I ask because of the way it mentions the necklace specifically.
As a secondary question: Not breathing, specific benefits would be things like no risk of suffocation/drowning, obviously. No worries about inhaled poisons, I'm assuming. But how does it relate to gas attacks? Would it function similarly to a gas mask? Would it render immunity to any cloud that doesn't have a line like Cloudkill's "Holding one’s breath doesn’t help"?
Would it function like a gas mask(either with or without the bonus to saves on magical clouds)? And how exactly does a gas mask play with mustard gas? Completely nullify it since it isn't magical? Does that mean mustard gas requires you to breathe it in? Would that mean a 9th level Starsoul is immune to Mustard gas? Is it a full effect? I'm assuming their eyes would still be vulnerable to the blind, and likely the acid...but what about the nausea?
Anyway, I apologize if this has been asked before, but I just spent an hour looking and couldn't find it. Thanks in advance. :D
It is what it says on the tin, your character does not need to breath, anything that requires breathing to work does not affect the character.
That's the stance I was taking with the co-GM, so that should help me there. Wanted to get another opinion before it comes up. Thanks. :D
Now I just need to figure out if Mustard Gas(and potentially certain other effects, but that's the main one) requires inhalation for any or all of the effects, or if an exposed face is enough to be an issue with blindness and maybe other parts of the effect.
of note, i have seen some argue that certain forms of suffocation are actually strangulation and would affect the character, it is down to the GMs discretion. (in this case it was the Suffocation wild talent for Kineticists, water actually drowns, air suffocates and telekinesis strangles but they all use the rule for suffocation.)
It does make some logical sense that strangulation, I think is just as much an effect of cutting off blood flow to the brain as it is rendering someone unable to breathe, would not be stopped by not needing to breathe.
I'm pretty sure drowning shouldn't be an issue, though.