Hi there
So, in the rules, it is said :
Two special types of energy damage specifically target the living and the undead. Positive energy often manifests as healing energy to living creatures but can create positive damage that withers undead bodies and disrupts and injures incorporeal undead. Negative energy often revivifies the unnatural, unliving power of undead, while manifesting as negative damage that gnaws at the living.
I am not sure how to interprete this. I see two possibilities :
- Positive/negative energy deal damage to everyone all the time (reading "positive energy often [...] withers undead bodies and disrupts and injures incorporeal undead", meaning that most of the time it will injure undeads but it is not exclusive)- Positive/negative energy deal damage only to undeads (reading "positive energy [...] withers undead bodies and disrupts and injures incorporeal undead")
Which one is correct ?
Positive energy heals the living and harms undead.
Negative energy heals the undead and harms the living.
Positive energy can either heal the living or harm undead, sometimes both.
Negative energy can either harm the undead or harm the living, sometimes both.
Without trying to get into the semantics of how the sentence is parsed, that is the intention, and that is how it works.
(Ah, I just noticed that I should have splitted the second option into two, being "positive deals damage to only undeads and negative deals damage to only the livings, sorry)
Ok, so that's the same as in PF1. Thanks for your answers :)