Questions tagged [incorporeal]
For questions relating to something or someone that does not inhabit a corporeal form (is disembodied), whether temporarily or permanently.
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Shadow's incorporeal touch attack vs DR5/bludgeoning
If the PC has damage reduction 5/bludgeoning because of wearing an magic item could the shadow's incorporeal touch damage do 1 on 1 or the DR decrease it the amount of 5?
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I want to play and equip a ghost adventurer, how do the various rules that apply to ghosts interact?
This is kind of a mish-mash with a common theme, so sorry for the broad question.
First, let's set the Rules Compendium as the base here.
Equipment worn or carried by an incorporeal creature is
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How can I effectively deal with an incorporeal enemy as an alchemist? Are alchemist's bombs considered magical?
Incorporeal enemies have double resistances against non-magical damage. Many other creatures also have resistances against some non-magical damage but incorporeal creatures are the biggest offenders.
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Is an incorporeal creature wearing bracers of armor able to pass through walls?
In my previous question it was confirmed that bracers of armor can be used by incorporeal.
Does the "tangible field" of force of the bracers impact the incorporeal creature's ability to ...
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Bracers of armor Vs incorporeal touch attack
If a humanoid is wearing bracers of armor and is attacked by an incorporeal creature, do the bracers of armor apply their "armor bonus" against incorporeal touch attacks?
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Incorporeals and armor/shield bonus
Can my human character become incorporeal with a spell and add his armor bonus (braces of armor) or shield bonus to his AC?
I have not found one Incorporeal monsters having armor or shield bonus on ...
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Corporeal attacks againt the incorporeal
We're not sure how to handle certain things concerning incorporeal creatures.
incorporeal (trait) An incorporeal creature or object has no
physical form. It can pass through solid objects, including
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Does Ghost Touch work on every damage type of the weapon?
If you hit a Wraith with a Rapier that has a Ghost Touch and a Frost rune, how much cold damage does it take?
The Wraith has resist 5 all, except for Ghost Touch:
Resistances all 5 (except force, ...
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Can a monk push a banshee?
Can an Open Hand Monk push/shove a Banshee using Flurry of Blows, in spite of all of the banshee's condition immunities and features (i.e.: grappled, prone, hover, incorporeal, etc.)?
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Does touch attack ignore any armor bonuses?
Reading the touch attack description it says that it ignores any armor bonus. Does this mean they also ignore magical properties of the armor?
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Does this mean that a creature attacking with ...
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A question about disembodied monsters and blinding spells on them
I am running a campaign with clerics, wizards and shadowcasters.
One of the characters, a cleric, wants to choose an invisibility spell. This is not the problem.
The problem is how this spell works ...
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Which manual to follow when the same subtype has different rules in three different manuals? The case of perfect wight becoming incorporeal
Our rogue perfect wight uses the supernatural ability Incorporeal from the Epic Level Handbook (page 34).
She argues that she should only follow the rules written in the Epic Level Handbook for the ...
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Can an incorporeal enter inside a corporeal to hit them from the inside?
This is a tactic that the rogue in our party, becoming incorporeal (perfect Wight) has used in the past to kill creatures bigger than her size, avoiding being hit or spotted by them. Also this was ...
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How can a permanently remove the incorporeal subtype from my character?
I am playing a Lesser Dream Element Creature (Dragon magazine #287, p. 34) Zenthyri and I need to be permanently corporeal.*
The method of corporeality must be unable to be disjunctioned/dispelled (so ...
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What if the rules for corporeal creatures and incorporeal were symmetrical?
I previously asked this question in regards to the asymmetry between corporeals attacking incorporeals (having a miss chance of 50%) and incorporeals attacking corporeals (no miss chance) as per the ...
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Do all incorporeal PCs have a 50% miss chance when attacking a corporeal creature?
In our D&D 3.5 campaign, for years, we have followed the rule provided in the Monster Manual 1 on the incorporeal subtype. Summarizing: corporeals that hit an incorporeal have a 50% chance to miss,...
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Does Ghostly Grasp work on all objects?
The feat Ghostly Grasp (Libris Mortis p. 27) says:
You can wear, wield, and otherwise use corporeal items as though you were not incorporeal.
Does this include being able to open a door, load a ...
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What happens when a creature using Assume Likeness becomes corporeal?
There are some cases where an incorporeal creature will become corporeal or is able to interact as if corporeal. The Assume Likeness ability of the Psion Uncarnate(1) (an unbodied(2) has an ability ...
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Is there a feat to allow a weapon to hit an incorporeal creature?
I'm still fairly new to 3.5 but I thought I saw a feat to allow a PC to hit incorporeal creatures as if they weren't. I know there is a feat to allow spells to act normally but couldn't find one for a ...
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Would the Icy Prison spell work differently against incorporeal foes?
Would the Icy Prison spell work differently against incorporeal foes?
I'm asking because I haven't been able to find anything about it, but this sentence under the Incorporeal monster rule makes me ...
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Can an incorporeal character with Ghost Step Tattoo still hit enemies?
For the Ghost Step Tattoo in Tasha's, I'm not entirely clear on incorporeal. If a character is incorporeal, can their weapon attacks (esp if non magical) still hit enemies?
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What are all the ways to get custom incorporeal equipment?
Ghost Syrup is a powerful Necrotoxin that makes the victim permanently incorporeal. This is obviously useful for many spellcasting characters and affordable by level 6 (judging by the rule that PCs ...
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Can a incorporeal crearure move through walls? [closed]
Helloy,
I´m playing a homebrew character and it states that he can take on a incorporeal form and can move through objects and creatures.
Can I also move through walls?
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Can a monk using empty body deal full damage to incorporal creatures?
Empty Body (Su): A monk with this ki power gains the ability to assume
an ethereal state for 1 minute as though using the spell etherealness,
using his monk level as his caster level. Using this ...
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Can Specters move into the ground to avoid Opportunity Attacks?
In 5e, Specters have the Incorporeal Movement trait, which says:
The specter can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends ...
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Do ghosts have to hover?
I'm trying to figure out the rules around flying creatures - particularly those that only have fly speeds and if that means they effectively have 2 actions a round due to a required hover.
Looking at ...
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Tunnel defense effective against Specters? [closed]
This is a fun one...DND 5E session.
Assume a 5' corridor that if 25' long leading to a dead-end (5 squares), and 5 party members (all medium size) fill each of those squares. A well armored tank as at ...
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When a UA Wild Soul barbarian's Wild Surge feature conjures "intangible spirits" that fly 30 feet in a random direction, do they move through walls?
When using the Path of the Wild Soul barbarian's Wild Surge feature (from Unearthed Arcana: Barbarian and Monk), if you roll a 3 on the Wild Surge table, it has the following effect:
You conjure 1d4 ...
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Can a Ghost use feats that have a strength score as a prerequisite?
A Ghost has a strength score, but it can only use physical force as long as it is on the ethereal plane. When a Ghost uses its manifestation ability, "it partly enters the Material Plane and becomes ...
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Does the Arcane Strike feat allow you to hit incorporeal creatures?
The Arcane Strike feat says that
your weapons [...] are treated as magic for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
I do not read this as suggesting that a mundane weapon actually becomes ...
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How do incorporeal creatures attack interact with their environment
I found some posts for 3.5e but there's not much information on incorporeal creatures attacking corporeal ones in the rules as far as I can find. It's pretty clear in the universal monster rules how ...
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Are incorporeal creatures damaged by the Dreamheart Tempest?
Incorporeal creatures are only damaged by magical effects (50% of the time), force damage, other incorporeal things, and things specifically designed to interact with incorporeal creatures (e.g. Ghost ...
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Can incorporeal creatures speak?
I got to thinking about how exactly incorporeal creatures interact with the corporeal world and I wasn't exactly coming up with anything that explicitly stated whether they could communicate or not. ...
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Would Ghost Trap revert a Psion Uncarnate to corporeal form?
Would the spell Ghost Trap revert a psion uncarnates incorporeal form if they enter the affected area ? What confuses me is this part of the wording for the ghost trap spell:
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Can telekinesis or wind affect incorporeal creatures?
Are incorporeal creatures affected by the following effects?
Telekinesis
Object thrown by Telekinesis
Wind caused by fan
Wind caused by Control Wind spell or Control Weather spell
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If my wizard casts Blink, can he better draw the attention of Incorporeal creatures?
I’m asking this question based on my answer to this other question: How can you force an incorporeal creature out of a solid surface?
The spell description for Blink seems to conflate being ...
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Can incorporeal creatures interact physically with other incorporeal creatures?
So say a ghost wants to shake hands with another ghost. Can they do that? Can they attack other incorporeal creatures with physical weapons in the same way ethereal creatures can?
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How can you force an incorporeal creature out of a solid surface?
From the PFSRD:
An incorporeal creature can enter or pass through solid objects, but must remain adjacent to the object’s exterior, and so cannot pass entirely through an object whose space is ...
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A ghost with Ghostly Grasp making a strength check?
A ghost is incorporeal and thus has no strength and normally cannot manipulate things on the material plane, however with the Ghostly Grasp feat ( Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead, p. 27) You can ...
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Can an incorporeal creature charge through a corporeal creature's space?
The Player's Handbook says that to execute a charge a creature "must have a clear path toward the opponent, and nothing can hinder [its] movement (such as difficult terrain or obstacles)" (154). Can a ...
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Can you knock a Banshee unconscious?
In our campaign I am attempting to garner information about a spellbook from a Banshee. I've had some suggestions from NPCs to beguile it, but trying to cover all my bases, I wondered if I could knock ...
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While just the neh-thalggu's mouth is corporeal can it be attacked normally?
Long one of my favorite monsters if only for its unique language, in an upcoming adventure I finally get to run an encounter with a neh-thalggu (EL 206–8). However, the creature is not without issues. ...
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What attribute do incorporeal creatures use for strength skills?
The SRD clearly states that incorporeal creatures have no Strength score, and use their Dexterity modifier for both melee and ranged attacks. However, what about Strength-based skills? Can a spook ...
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Can a monster with Incorporeal Movement end its movement inside of another creature or object?
RAW for the specter's Incorporeal Movement (MM p 279):
The specter can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its ...
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Does a specter's Incorporeal Movement ability provoke opportunity attacks?
The Specter has the ability Incorporeal Movement, which states,
The specter can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5(1d10) force damage if it ends ...
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Psion Crystal Attack Powers vs. Incorporeal?
There are several crystal attacking powers for psions. They inflict damage along the lines of slashing and piercing.
The incorporeal subtype says this:
An incorporeal creature has no physical body. ...
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Does Ghostbane Dirge have a miss chance against incorporeal targets?
Ghostbane Dirge:
The target coalesces into a semi-physical form for a short period of
time. While subject to the spell, the incorporeal creature takes half
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Can an incorporeal creature turn any object incorporeal with the Ghostly Grasp feat?
The Ghostly Grasp feat is described in Libris Mortis (page 27) and states:
You can wear, wield, and otherwise use corporeal items as though you were not incorporeal.
Emphasis mine.
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Can an incorporeal creature execute a touch spell against a corporeal creature?
I am going by the definition of the incorporeal subtype from Monster Manual Ⅴ (page 213) and have a hard time coming to a definitive answer. I believe that incorporeal creatures should be able to ...
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Does Smash From the Air work against Brilliant Energy or Phase arrows?
I've been arguing with someone about the feat smash from the air. This feat allows a character to make an attack of opportunity against an incoming attack (giant boulders, hostile ray spells, arrows, ....
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