Greetings,
Craig recently wrote:
"In the campaign I am gearing up to run, one of the major NPC's has the blood
ability from "Blood Enemies" that makes him invulnrable. That is, he can't
die from normal wounding, only under specific conditions will this person
actually die. Other conditions will have him look dead, but he will regenerate
like a
troll until he is back to normal health. I set this fella up with the condition
that acid will do permanent damage to him; and placed a sizeable enough pool of
acid in the area so that eventually the PC's can figure out how to get him, and
find the acid via adventure, such that in the far off grand confrontation, they
*do* have a chance to kill him for real. (I'm planning on giving them a couple
of
chances beforehand so they can "kill" him and then he comes back)
My question is this: What happens when such an invulnrable character (who's
blooded obviously) takes a shot through the heart??? This won't kill him as
it will others, but I would think bloodtheft should occur. And if it does,
what's
that leave him with?? Does the sword through the heart negate his blooded
ability as the bloodtheft occurs; or does the bloodtheft occur and leave him
with a reduced
bloodline, or a compeltely absent one???"
I do not think that there will be a bloodtheft, not even a temporary one. The
Rulebook states on p. 31: "If a scion or regent dies as a result of another
blooded character piercing him through the heart, the victim's heir assumes his
domain ... (The act of piercing the regent through the heart must be the killing
blow)". Your invulnerable character gets pierced through his heart, but does
>not< get killed (I haven't got my Blood enemies at hand, so maybe someone can
check the entry on the blood ability "invulnerability" to see whether I got this
right). Thus, no bloodtheft (IMO).
Although I assume that there is a straight answer to this problem, I nonetheless
think you raised an interesting point here. What about raised/resurrected
characters which got killed in the time-honoured manner? Will they come back
without their bloodline? Are their points in temporary suspension? Will the
points wander from victim to slayer and back to raised victim? Will there be a
difference if the slayer is a commoner? What about the heirs of the slain
regents? And what about Clones? Will they also have blood points? Is this an
easy way to get an easy supply of victims for your evil wizard regent ...[ ;-)
]...?
Kent