Negative energy spells now do necrotic damage; some undead are resistant or immune to necrotic damage, but it isn’t listed as healing them. Classic negative energy spells like inflict wounds and harm don’t list undead healing as a possible effect.
Is there a healing magic that heals undead?
And on the flip side, Inflict Wounds (and other spells dealing necrotic damage) don’t necessarily heal undead. Hell, Skeleton and Zombie don’t even have resistance or immunity to necrotic damage. I’m going to make this way harder than it needs to be.
Can a healing spell take away a zombie?
It didn’t take away a healing spell any more than casting bless, bane, hold person, sleep, or any other non healing spell that uses spell slots. And on the flip side, Inflict Wounds (and other spells dealing necrotic damage) don’t necessarily heal undead. Hell, Skeleton and Zombie don’t even have resistance or immunity to necrotic damage.
Are there any general rules for healing magic?
There are no general rules for healing spells or specific creature types such as undead so this is a question that can only be answered on a case-by-case basis. Look at a specific healing spell, then look at the monster’s stat block. If neither of them mention anything about that spell dealing damage to undead, it doesn’t do so.
Can a zombie be healed with negative energy?
The undead trait says undead can be healed with negative energy, not that every negative energy heals then, so it “makes sense” that you can harm it, with the heal spell, doing negative energy damage. By the way, note that by casting harm on the zombie, you are supposed to make him gain HP through positive energy.
What happens to undead when you use positive energy?
When you target a undead with positive energy, you make it take damage, when you target it with negative energy, you make it gain HP. That’s pretty simple and the weird cases have to be houseruled by the GM.
Is there a way to heal undead in 5th edition?
Fifth edition seems to have removed any means of healing undead. The positive/negative energy duality of 3rd edition seems to be gone. Negative energy spells now do necrotic damage; some undead are resistant or immune to necrotic damage, but it isn’t listed as healing them.
Is there any way to heal undead creatures?
The first answer is that undead can rest, just like anyone else. Crawford tweeted on this: It doesn’t mention long rests, but I think it’s safe to assume that if they can take short rests, they can take long rests, too.
Are there any spells that can cure wounds?
The other max HP reducing attacks and their respective cures are: chasme’s proboscis attack – long rest or spell like greater restoration (MM, p. 57) demilich’s energy drain – greater restoration spell or similar magic (MM, p. 48)
