HaikenEdge
2014-01-24, 01:47 PM
According to the SRD entry on a Vampire's fast healing (bold for emphasis):
A vampire heals 5 points of damage each round so long as it has at least 1 hit point. If reduced to 0 hit points in combat, it automatically assumes gaseous form and attempts to escape. It must reach its coffin home within 2 hours or be utterly destroyed. (It can travel up to nine miles in 2 hours.) Any additional damage dealt to a vampire forced into gaseous form has no effect. Once at rest in its coffin, a vampire is helpless. It regains 1 hit point after 1 hour, then is no longer helpless and resumes healing at the rate of 5 hit points per round.
However, according to the Shadow Sun Ninja entry from Tome of Battle (again bold for emphasis):
If this damage drops your Constitution to 0 or lower, your body dissipates into an inky cloud. Unless you are restored to life by true resurrection, you rise in 1d4 days as a vampire. Your alignment becomes evil, though your alignment on the law–chaos axis remains the same. You are now a dedicated champion of evil and an NPC. You retain access to all your abilities in this prestige class and lack a normal vampire’s vulnerability to sunlight. Your vampiric body forms in the spot where your mortal form perished.
This seems to imply Shadow Sun Ninjas who die via Balance of Light and Dark don't have a coffin, so how exactly does the former escape to coffin section of the Vampire's Fast Healing entry interact with a Shadow Sun Ninja?
A vampire heals 5 points of damage each round so long as it has at least 1 hit point. If reduced to 0 hit points in combat, it automatically assumes gaseous form and attempts to escape. It must reach its coffin home within 2 hours or be utterly destroyed. (It can travel up to nine miles in 2 hours.) Any additional damage dealt to a vampire forced into gaseous form has no effect. Once at rest in its coffin, a vampire is helpless. It regains 1 hit point after 1 hour, then is no longer helpless and resumes healing at the rate of 5 hit points per round.
However, according to the Shadow Sun Ninja entry from Tome of Battle (again bold for emphasis):
If this damage drops your Constitution to 0 or lower, your body dissipates into an inky cloud. Unless you are restored to life by true resurrection, you rise in 1d4 days as a vampire. Your alignment becomes evil, though your alignment on the law–chaos axis remains the same. You are now a dedicated champion of evil and an NPC. You retain access to all your abilities in this prestige class and lack a normal vampire’s vulnerability to sunlight. Your vampiric body forms in the spot where your mortal form perished.
This seems to imply Shadow Sun Ninjas who die via Balance of Light and Dark don't have a coffin, so how exactly does the former escape to coffin section of the Vampire's Fast Healing entry interact with a Shadow Sun Ninja?