Flickerdart
2012-11-21, 06:31 PM
Let us take an ordinary human. Call him Bob. Bob's only redeeming quality is that he is exceptionally wealthy. He decides to get himself two grafts - a Clawed Arm and an Iron Golem's arm (succeeding on the save - I don't think Regeneration works on constructs anyway).
Confident in his new strength, Bob gets into a duel with the master swordsman Steve. At this point, the timelines diverge:
a) Steve cuts off the fingers on the Clawed Arm;
b) Steve cuts off the Clawed Arm;
c) Steve cuts off the fingers of the Iron Golem arm;
d) Steve cuts off the Iron Golem arm.
Bob then has a Regeneration cast upon him (without touching the lost members to the wound). There are no rules that deal with cutting off body parts (old-style grafts are specifically outlined as not being sunderable), so let's not quibble about that bit. Steve definitely cut off those bits. The question is, what happens now? Does he get back his own fingers, or the fingers of the grafted limb? If the entire arm is lost, does he get back his own arm or the grafted arm? Is this different for the Iron Golem arm, which is arguably more part of him than the fiendish graft?
Confident in his new strength, Bob gets into a duel with the master swordsman Steve. At this point, the timelines diverge:
a) Steve cuts off the fingers on the Clawed Arm;
b) Steve cuts off the Clawed Arm;
c) Steve cuts off the fingers of the Iron Golem arm;
d) Steve cuts off the Iron Golem arm.
Bob then has a Regeneration cast upon him (without touching the lost members to the wound). There are no rules that deal with cutting off body parts (old-style grafts are specifically outlined as not being sunderable), so let's not quibble about that bit. Steve definitely cut off those bits. The question is, what happens now? Does he get back his own fingers, or the fingers of the grafted limb? If the entire arm is lost, does he get back his own arm or the grafted arm? Is this different for the Iron Golem arm, which is arguably more part of him than the fiendish graft?