Rogue Master Strike vs Contructs / Undead


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With the Master Strike ability, when a 19+ Rogue strikes a flat-footed creature and does damage, that creature must roll a fort save with the following effects:

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The target attempts a Fortitude save at your class DC. It then becomes temporarily immune to your Master Strike for 1 day.

Critical Success The target is unaffected.
Success The target is enfeebled 2 until the end of your next turn.
Failure The target is paralyzed for 4 rounds.
Critical Failure The target is paralyzed for 4 rounds, knocked unconscious for 2 hours, or killed (your choice).

When it comes to using the ability vs creatures with immunities, such as Constructs or Undead (Relevant immunities to paralyzed/unconcious/death effects), is the only effective result a success against the Master Strike Fort Save(assuming the creature is not immune to enfeebled)?

Does the Master Strike Crit Fail count as a death effect if the player chooses the killed option?

Immunity to death effects specifies that the creature is immune to abilities with the Death trait, however the Master strike action only has the Incapacitation and Rogue traits.


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Indeed... the critical failure should have the death trait given how death effects work.


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A character who can't be paralyzed would suffer nothing on a fail, but that wouldn't confer immunity to any other effect.

The Critical Failure effect of master strike is not a death effect, so immunity to death effects wouldn't help.

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