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Thread: Do Trees have Hit Points?
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2021-12-09, 06:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Do Trees have Hit Points?
So, wounded wizard in a forest, has only Vampiric Touch memorized.
Can he use Vampiric touch to drain HP from a tree?The Cranky Gamer
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2021-12-10, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Do Trees have Hit Points?
As I recall, treants can 'animate' trees, and each tree they animate has a move speed, AC, THAC0, and most importantly hit dice and hit points.
Trees are alive, so I could see allowing the wizard to cast Vampiric Touch on one. I mean, there are tons of plant-monsters, and it presumably works on them, right?Warhammer 40,000 Campaign Skirmish Game: Warpstrike
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2021-12-10, 10:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Do Trees have Hit Points?
The Cranky Gamer
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2021-12-10, 11:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Do Trees have Hit Points?
Do you want them to have hit points?
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2021-12-10, 05:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Do Trees have Hit Points?
It's from the Monster Manual:
Treants have the ability to animate normal trees. One treant can animate up to two trees. It takes one round for a normal tree to uproot itself. Thereafter the animated tree can move at a rate of 3 per turn and fights as a full-grown treant (12 Hit Dice, two attacks, 4-24 points of damage per attack). A treant must be within 60 yards of the tree it is attempting to animate. Animated trees lose their ability to move if the treant who animated them is incapacitated or moves more than 60 yards away.Last edited by JadedDM; 2021-12-10 at 05:36 PM.
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2021-12-10, 11:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Do Trees have Hit Points?
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2021-12-12, 10:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-12, 08:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Do Trees have Hit Points?
Hah! Yeah, I know.
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Seriously, though, if I were to allow it I would allow a small, but non-zero chance of a ramification, likely in the form of an undead fey creature rising from the drained tree or the caster becoming partially tree-like (because, um, the tree is a different form of life, or something. This idea may require some work).
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2021-12-13, 02:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Do Trees have Hit Points?
and so is true of sessile animals, I am not sure if sea stars, anemones, sea urchins and the like count as sessile animals, but they have life force to... however they do not have hit points, they have structural points, which can be converted to hit points through this spell in this case...
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2021-12-17, 03:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Do Trees have Hit Points?
Hm. Taking that quote literally & technicality, you could say trees are not creatures, so no worky. More generally, if you can drain trees you should be able to drain grass. As personal ruling, i,d say you can’t vampire inanimate plants except in Dark Sun. Constructs are iffy, maybe you could drain the magical energy animating them.
Trees do have hitpoints. That’s how you know how long it takes to chop one down. No vital organs so can’t coup de gras though.