Psychic Stalkers - Posession Doesn't Work on Preferred Targets

[Carrauntoohil]

The Psychic Stalker Fleeting Possession ability says:

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As a standard action, a psychic stalker can enter an adjacent living creature’s body and begin to destroy its mind in a violent attempt to feel alive. The psychic stalker can initiate this process only on a creature that has taken an amount of Charisma damage equal to or greater than half the creature’s Charisma score.

It goes on to say that:

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Psychic stalkers delight in possessing creatures immune to negative energy, since the stalkers don’t affect those creatures’ Charisma scores and can inhabit them indefinitely

How, exactly, does a Psychic Stalker possess the creatures that it delights in possessing if they're immune to the damage theyneed to take in order to be possessed?

[Vatticone]

That’s a funny oversight but, unless there’s some errata, I imagine it’s a case of rules trumping fluff.

[Carrauntoohil]

Vatticone wrote:

That’s a funny oversight but, unless there’s some errata, I imagine it’s a case of rules trumping fluff.

Definitely.

This is my second thread in less than a week complaining about rules and flavour not lining up.

I'm normally such a happy-go-lucky chap, I swear!

[Diego Rossi]

"Delight" man that they like to do it. Not that they are forced or need to do it. And a Psychic Stalker has intelligence 13 and can possess bodies.
So they can get Ungol dust and poison creatures with a poison that drain charisma, possess one of several creatures that damage or drain charisma with poison or physical special attacks, even get magic items that damage charisma.
It is not impossible for them to get a body immune to negative effects, it is simply more difficult.