Question about Reborn and curses.

I've tried looking around and couldn't find an actual answer to my question. I'm playing as a reborn cleric in Curse of Strahd and got bit by werewolf. I failed the Con saving throw and have been infected with lycropanthy, however the curse only works on living creatures. Since reborn are technically undead to an extent would the curse still take root or not? Should it be left up to the DM? I think this one of those situations that wasn't 100% thought about when the race was made. To me since it explicitly states the "person died and yet still lives" that the curse shouldn't take hold. Just thought I'd get input from others. Thanks in advance!

Greetings Baldeagle1787,

Reading through the 2014 Reborn and the 2024 Reborn (you didn't specify which you were using), I don't see anything that states they cannot be affected by a Curse.
So if you failed your saving throw, then you are Cursed, unless I missed something as I'm not very familiar with that Species.

Cheers!

I'm using the 2024 version, I agree that it doesn't state it. However reading through what lycropanthy says, it specifically targets living tissue and a reborn is technically dead and the suggested origins for the reborn further reenforce that you're undead to an extent. Which opens another can of worms since it explicitly states that undead can't be cursed with things like lycropanthy. Think of the reborn as Frankenstein. 

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I'm using the 2024 version, I agree that it doesn't state it. However reading through what lycropanthy says, it specifically targets living tissue and a reborn is technically dead and the suggested origins for the reborn further reenforce that you're undead to an extent. Which opens another can of worms since it explicitly states that undead can't be cursed with things like lycropanthy. Think of the reborn as Frankenstein. 

Reborn not "dead" in the D&D game mechanics sense of the word. They're also not Undead, as they have the Humanoid creature type.

I agree it might make narrative sense for them to be immune to things like this, and if you and your DM want to play it that way, that's totally fine. If you're asking what the official rules actually say about this, though, that's very clear: Reborn are not dead or undead and are not immune to lycanthropy.

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I'm using the 2024 version, I agree that it doesn't state it. However reading through what lycropanthy says, it specifically targets living tissue and a reborn is technically dead and the suggested origins for the reborn further reenforce that you're undead to an extent. Which opens another can of worms since it explicitly states that undead can't be cursed with things like lycropanthy. Think of the reborn as Frankenstein. 

Reborn not "dead" in the D&D game mechanics sense of the word. They're also not Undead, as they have the Humanoid creature type.

I agree it might make narrative sense for them to be immune to things like this, and if you and your DM want to play it that way, that's totally fine. If you're asking what the official rules actually say about this, though, that's very clear: Reborn are not dead or undead and are not immune to lycanthropy.

 I get that the rules don't explicitly state that the reborn are undead but their description "Reborn are individuals who have died yet inexplicably still live." To me that tells me the reborn is like Frankenstein and is basically an animated dead corpse that isn't reliant on necromancy to keep going and they're fully sentient. It could just be my interpretation of the reading of it though. 

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I'm using the 2024 version, I agree that it doesn't state it. However reading through what lycropanthy says, it specifically targets living tissue and a reborn is technically dead and the suggested origins for the reborn further reenforce that you're undead to an extent. Which opens another can of worms since it explicitly states that undead can't be cursed with things like lycropanthy. Think of the reborn as Frankenstein. 

Reborn not "dead" in the D&D game mechanics sense of the word. They're also not Undead, as they have the Humanoid creature type.

I agree it might make narrative sense for them to be immune to things like this, and if you and your DM want to play it that way, that's totally fine. If you're asking what the official rules actually say about this, though, that's very clear: Reborn are not dead or undead and are not immune to lycanthropy.

 I get that the rules don't explicitly state that the reborn are undead but their description "Reborn are individuals who have died yet inexplicably still live." To me that tells me the reborn is like Frankenstein and is basically an animated dead corpse that isn't reliant on necromancy to keep going and they're fully sentient. It could just be my interpretation of the reading of it though. 

Yes, that's absolutely the sort of thing the designers had in mind when they created the Reborn species. Frankenstein's monster was definitely a major inspiration.

To be clear, the rules actually explicitly state that it's not Undead, by stating its creature type as Humanoid. Again, if you want to ignore that at your table and run them as Undead, and/or make them immune to lycanthropy, that's totally fine.