Re: [DL] soul blast and such

["David L. Hoff" <dlhoff1@charter.net>]

Doplegnger@aol.com wrote:

>just a quick question I have ecountered with the wording of things like soul 
>blast (basically spells which say they can damage creatrures normally immune 
>to physical damage)
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>just how far does this go?
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>obviously it is meant to hurt incorporeal creatures
>but what about...
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>zombies (do you hurt them as normal humansso 5 wounds to the guts gets them?)
>special horrors (it's not their one weakness, but it says it hurts them)
>heck, the reckoners themselves (seem like solid candidates for "immune to all 
>damage" descriptions)
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>is it just designed for incorporaeal things or was it also supposed to be a 
>secondary way to take out the more dangerous abominations (since it 
>supposedly damages their spirit)
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>which way was it intended to be?
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I would say it hurts them, but it will not actually wound them. In other 
words,  you can make the bad guys roll for stun, or you can temporarily 
defeat them, but I would still require that their specific weakness be 
used to put them down permanently.

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