A few ghost questions [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Yare

04-12-05, 03:44 AM		I wasn't clear on a couple rules about incoporeality and ghost-touch weapons.

If I am using a ghost-touch weapon, I can attack coporeal creatures normally, correct? Does that include adding my strength bonus to attack and damage? If I use a ghost-touch weapon, do my attacks still ignore regular armor? Magical armor?

If I am a manifested incoporeal creature (50% miss chance, I guess), does that mean that my opponents are always flat-footed? Do I always get to add sneak attack damage?

When not manifested (and existing 100% on the ethereal plane) I can see 60 feet into the material plane. If I have a ghost-touch weapon, can I attack things that I see on the material plane without manifesting myself first?

Also, as a ghost do I receive immunity to critical hits?

Thanks in advance.
Part-Human2

04-12-05, 08:34 AM		I wasn't clear on a couple rules about incoporeality and ghost-touch weapons.

If I am using a ghost-touch weapon, I can attack coporeal creatures normally, correct? Does that include adding my strength bonus to attack and damage? If I use a ghost-touch weapon, do my attacks still ignore regular armor? Magical armor?
Yes. No. Yes. Yes.
The last two yeses are based on the fact that Ghost Touch weapons are either incorporeal or corporeal, whichever is most beneficial at the time.

If I am a manifested incoporeal creature (50% miss chance, I guess), does that mean that my opponents are always flat-footed? Do I always get to add sneak attack damage?
No. It's not miss chance due to concealment.

When not manifested (and existing 100% on the ethereal plane) I can see 60 feet into the material plane. If I have a ghost-touch weapon, can I attack things that I see on the material plane without manifesting myself first?
No, Ghost Touch weapons don't cross planar boundries (even the small one between the Border Ethereal and the Material Plane. Force effects and some Gaze attacks can extend from the Material to the Ethereal though.

Also, as a ghost do I receive immunity to critical hits?
As you are undead, yes, but not because of Incorporeal.

Thanks in advance.
You're welcome.

If a ghost exists as a Corporeal creature on the Ethereal Plane, even while it manifests, why does it have a "STR -"? Strength should be kept in case it encounters another ghost or has a Ethereal encounter and be a nonability only while it's manifesting.