So my group has been having fun talking about this book and the topic of healing comes up, with how positive energy is forbidden. The concern came from parties with a combination of living and undead, as many classes can only do one or the other.
A cleric can heal undead/negative healing PC's with Harm, but can't use Heal due to positive energy. A bard can heal the living with soothe, but can't use Harm and Soothe only works on the living. Stuff like that. So I figured I'd point out some of the ways a single person can tend to both sides of the equation, living and undead!
Clerics: A cleric who follows "The Lost Prince" or "Naderi" would have a Harm Font & get Soothe as a granted spell.
Oracles: As a divine caster, has Harm. They can also take the level 4 feat Divine Access, picking a deity who has Soothe as a granted spell and get it like a Cleric does. This requires your mystery to offer a domain that one of the Soothe deities have. Bone Oracle has the Death Domain, Naderi has the death domain and can give you soothe for example.
Sorcerers: Divine Sorcs with the Blessed Blood feat, following a Soothe granting deity, can gain that spell. Will have Harm thanks to Divine. An Undead Sorc specifically also has Undeath's Blessing, allowing you to make your living companion count as undead for the purpose of Harm.
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If I remember correctly, something written as part of the undead PC options in Book of the Dead mentioned that undead PCs can actually be healed with Soothe. I don't have my copy of the book in front of me, but I think some people have taken that as a stealth errata.
If I remember correctly, something written as part of the undead PC options in Book of the Dead mentioned that undead PCs can actually be healed with Soothe. I don't have my copy of the book in front of me, but I think some people have taken that as a stealth errata.
Now that you mention that, I do see that in Blood Lords. But I don't see any errata. So I'm not sure which is the "official" haha
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Alchemist with both elixir of life and necrotic bomb in their formula book. Perhaps also with Magical Crafting and oil of unlife in their crafting formulas or the multiclass Witch Dedication, Basic Witch Spellcasting (for soothe), and Basic Witchcraft (Cauldron).
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Necrotic Bomb doesn't heal undead, they're just immune to the damage.
Alchemist with both elixir of life and necrotic bomb in their formula book. Perhaps also with Magical Crafting and oil of unlife in their crafting formulas or the multiclass Witch Dedication, Basic Witch Spellcasting (for soothe), and Basic Witchcraft (Cauldron).
Alchemist didn't cross my mind, nice one! I was so busy thinking about "Casters", alchemist with elixirs and oils went under my radar haha.
Medicine with Stitch Flesh.Fun fact : Stitch Flesh works on skeletons, who don't have flesh. It also works on ghosts, who are incorporeal.
Am I current in saying that Stitch Flesh is needed for Treat Wounds to work, but NOT needed for Battle Medicine?
Treat Wounds specifies "One Injured Living Creature", while Battle Med just says "You can patch up wounds". It uses the Treat Wounds DC and corresponding amount of HP, but is not treat wounds. Sooo battle med works on undead without stitch flesh?
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The chalice implement from Thaumaturge works on both living and undead. When a living creature drinks it has the positive and healing trait, if someone with negative healing drinks from it, it loses both those traits and gains the negative trait instead.
The chalice implement from Thaumaturge works on both living and undead. When a living creature drinks it has the positive and healing trait, if someone with negative healing drinks from it, it loses both those traits and gains the negative trait instead.
You will have to be careful with any magical healing that has the positive trait. Even non healing options, like a spirit Barbarian will get arrested in Geb for using positive energy. The living really have it tough in this AP
There is no reason a GM can't allow an alchemist to create an elixir to "heal" undead. Just use the same stats as a standard healing elixir.Alchemist with both elixir of life and necrotic bomb in their formula book. Perhaps also with Magical Crafting and oil of unlife in their crafting formulas or the multiclass Witch Dedication, Basic Witch Spellcasting (for soothe), and Basic Witchcraft (Cauldron).Alchemist didn't cross my mind, nice one! I was so busy thinking about "Casters", alchemist with elixirs and oils went under my radar haha.
Yeah, but that would be a GM decision over an official ruling and wouldn't fly at every table. There also isn't necessarily a huge need for an Elixir to heal undead when Oil of Unlife does that. Sure it's not an Elixir, but it's still an alchemical item that an alchemist can create just as easily.
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There is a thingie in book 2 that solves this problem, though it's a bit hamfisted in its delivery.