Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Deathmond 05-14-07, 09:37 PM	I wasn't quite sure where to ask this, but this seems as good a place as any. If you're a race with immunities, such as Vampire with immunity to mind-affecting effects, can you voluntarily drop those immunities?
Salla 05-14-07, 09:46 PM	I don't think so. It's an intrinsic part of who you are, it'd be like a Fire Elemental suddenly not being immune to fire.
Deathmond 05-14-07, 10:10 PM	Well, I ask specifically because the way it's written, it seems that a willing vampire can't be Mindlinked with, and that seems weird.
Dead_Weasel 05-14-07, 11:08 PM	That is because undead and constructs, when they are sentient, think in a manner entirely separate from that of living beings. They do not even have brains, in most cases - there is simply no way that thought operates in a fashion that is identical or even related to the way it operates in a living creature. What you could do is design a template/PrC that justifies the loss of an immunity, similar to the Reforged/Warforged Juggernaut PrCs, which take a Warforged character from Living Construct to near-humanoid/Construct, respectively. However, in this case, that would be a bit difficult to justify - does the undead creature regrow its brain, or start using someone else's? Does it cease being Undead entirely, becoming something else, or does it gain the Augmented subtype?
Part-Human2 05-15-07, 12:25 AM	Vampires are immune to mind-affecting effects because they are of the undead type. A vampire cannot forego immunity to mind-affecting effects any more than they could forego their immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, stunning, disease, and death effects.