Just checking about positive negative energy

[Devronq]

So elementals are healed by positive energy and harmed by negative energy same as any other living creature correct? and Constructs aren't effected at all by ether yes? Also no other creature types have any different effects against these two energies? (other than undead where it works opposite.)

[ZamielVanWeber]

I cannot finding anything specific, but all the cure and inflict spells permit SR, so they are blocked on golems. As for other constructs it would be on a case by case basis.

Elementals work just as humanoids do.

[Devronq]

I thought there was something about positive energy only working on living creatures which constructs are not and i have no idea about negative?

[Lightlawbliss]

Iirc, positive energy is mainly a fluff term. I remember nothing about positive energy only affecting living things. I remember reading somewhere that Conjuration (healing) affects only living things and are all positive energy but I don't remember anything about positive energy working only on living things.

granted, If such a rule exists it likely doesn't matter much anyway with how rare true constructs vulnerable to SR requiring spells are.

[Devronq]

Iirc, positive energy is mainly a fluff term. I remember nothing about positive energy only affecting living things. I remember reading somewhere that Conjuration (healing) affects only living things and are all positive energy but I don't remember anything about positive energy working only on living things.

granted, If such a rule exists it likely doesn't matter much anyway with how rare true constructs vulnerable to SR requiring spells are.

That may have been what i was thinking about that conjuration healing only effects living creatures. It would also matter on the positive or negative energy plane. Also it relatively common to have a construct that doesnt have immunity to magic, most have just SR.

Constructs not immune to magic
MM1: Animated objects- no resistance at all, homunculus- no resistance at all, kolyarut- sr22, marut-sr25, zelekhut-sr20, retriever- no resistance at all, shield guardian- no resistance at all.

So basically only golems are immune so again not that rare

[TuggyNE]

So elementals are healed by positive energy and harmed by negative energy same as any other living creature correct? and Constructs aren't effected at all by ether yes? Also no other creature types have any different effects against these two energies? (other than undead where it works opposite.)

Cure X wounds, and presumably most other healing spells, specify living creatures only. However, there is at least one positive energy spell that does not heal living creatures, but damages them: bolt of glory. Most constructs are unaffected by most positive or negative energy spells (though bolt of glory still punches a bit of a hole in them).

So far as I know, no other type has any special interactions.


That may have been what i was thinking about that conjuration healing only effects living creatures. It would also matter on the positive or negative energy plane.

The negative and positive energy planes do nothing to constructs or undead except grant temporary HP on the PEP. If nothing else, the Fort save requirements block off any of the unpleasant effects.