Timeline for How does a Flameskull's Rejuvenation affect its rest?
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| Dec 30, 2023 at 15:46 | vote | accept | Kirt | ||
| Dec 11, 2020 at 5:02 | comment | added | Kirt | The flameskull does not require sleep. Does that mean it is not affected by lack of sleep (as in XGtE) or it can do any action or process that normally requires sleep, without sleep? A dual-classed druid monk with Timeless Body does not need food or water. Does that mean she does not suffer exhaustion when going without food, or that she may cast Animal Friendship and Animal Messenger without the material component of food that would otherwise be required? | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 22:41 | comment | added | illustro | Second, if the flameskull requires sleep in order to take a long rest, then it requires sleep. The Undead Nature trait precludes this requirement by stating that the flameskull does not require sleep. | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 22:39 | comment | added | illustro | @Kirt D&D 5e uses natural language to describe it's rules. The a creature that is destroyed is dead. The reason the flameskull rejuvinates is due the the magic of the ritual that cursed them into a life of undeath, barely able to remember their former lives. The curse binds them to unlife, and thus doesn't allow them to pass on when they are killed, instead rejuvinating them. Source: see the Monster Manual Description of flameskulls. | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 20:33 | comment | added | Kirt | (2) It is clear in rules and rulings that when a creature is dead it is no longer a creature - it is an object, a corpse. But I am not aware of any similar statement that a creature that is destroyed is no longer a creature - I don't think 'destroyed' is a game-defined term. In particular, I am assuming that flameskulls rejuvenate with their unspent spell slots intact. If they cease to be a creature whilst 'destroyed', how can they retain the memory of those spells? | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 20:30 | comment | added | Kirt | (1) In the case of an elf, the description of trance specifically says that it is instead of sleep - this is specific over general. But flameskulls' undead nature just says that they don't require sleep - it doesn't say that anything specifically replaces sleep in their long rest, or that they don't specifically need sleep in order to take a rest, or that they can't sleep. In the absence of any statements to the contrary, isn't it more conservative to assume that they do have to sleep to complete a rest, rather than assume that they don't? | |
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| Dec 9, 2020 at 11:07 | history | answered | illustro | CC BY-SA 4.0 |