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    BlackDragon

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    Default [3.5] Immune to turning?

    On a normal turn attempt the undead makes them cower which is a fear affect, wouldn't the undead immunity to mind-affecting stop this. If not would mindblank or another type of immunity to mind affecting

    Also is it possible to make an undead immune to turning so that they do not have the chance to be destroyed.

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    Default Re: [3.5] Immune to turning?

    The fear a turned undead suffers from is a specific exception to their immunity to fear.

    Also, unless you're a Death Knight, which has immunity to turning, the best you're going to be able to do is get something with turn resistance.
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    Default Re: [3.5] Immune to turning?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mooch View Post
    On a normal turn attempt the undead makes them cower which is a fear affect, wouldn't the undead immunity to mind-affecting stop this. If not would mindblank or another type of immunity to mind affecting
    Turned undead are recoiling from their spiritual antithesis out of a sense of self-preservation, rather than out of fear. Assume that they can feel the harm this power would do to them and that they either a) make a rationale choice not to destroy themselves, or b) can no more approach the cleric than a fish can swim through rock.

    Don't think mind-affecting: think fantasy physics.

    Also is it possible to make an undead immune to turning so that they do not have the chance to be destroyed.
    Sure you can. So long as you as DM have a really good rationale for discarding the mechanic, and if you offer the cleric something to compensate for undead just becoming even more difficult to defeat (given that their vulnerability to turning in part compensates for their other immunities).

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