Dhampir heritage and damage

[Sebastian Hirsch]

They take those damage types just fine, Dhampir's are just a bit weird when it comes to positive and negative energy.

Also flagged this post since it is in the wrong part of the forum, what you are asking is not a Pathfinder Society-specific question, and you will get better answers in other parts of the forum.

[Hilary Moon Murphy]

The main thing that you need when playing a dhampir (or undead ancestries, like skeletons) is that you need to communicate with your party in advance about your healing issues. Let them know in advance that you cannot take positive energy, where your oil of unlife is on your character, and that soothe spells and battle medicine work just fine on you.

Hmm

[Blake's Tiger]

Neither 1e nor 2e state that only positive energy harms them. The rules elements state that take damage from positive energy. They still take Piercing, Bludgeoning, Slashing, and all other damage types except for Negative as a character normally would.

1e Dhampir wrote:

Though a living creature, a dhampir reacts to positive and negative energy as if it were undead—positive energy harms it, while negative energy heals it.

2e Dhampir wrote:

You have the negative healing ability, which means you are harmed by positive damage and healed by negative effects as if you were undead.

There is a saying that applies here: if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably isn't true.

[Doug Hahn]

Side note, in pfs you should be expected to take care of yourself to a degree with medicine, etc especially if you require negative healing. Do not expect or demand that others prep Harms for you.

Like HMM said in a home group work with the players and collaborate to make sure the group succeeds.

[Hilary Moon Murphy]

It's important to communicate your needs in PFS, though. Telling everyone that you can't handle positive energy keeps a cleric from making a mistake by targeting you with a heal. Telling the rest of the party where you keep your Oil of Unlife makes it more likely they can bring you back up when you go down.

Yes, you should plan on having battle medicine to heal yourself, but helping the rest of the party know that things work differently for you is important.

[Norbwald]

My gnomish skeleton is in denial about their condition. Means he can't really activly discuss his needs. Hasn't stopped me as a player from saying, Norbwald won't admit it but after traveoling for a bit you're pretty sute he's a skeleton and that positive energy is bad for him.