An encounter I'm working on is will have a Hydra. I know the Wizard in the party, whose spells are mostly fire-based, will cast a fireball at this creature and could definitely take out one of the Hydras' heads so I'm trying to understand the following rule.
Whenever the hydra takes 25 or more damage in a single turn, one of its heads dies. If all its heads die, the hydra dies.
At the end of its turn, it grows two heads for each of its heads that died since its last turn, unless it has taken fire damage since its last turn. The hydra regains 10 hit points for each head regrown in this way.
Question:
Say, the Wizard does cast a fireball and takes out one of the Hydra's head on its turn would it NOT regrow the two heads because it was damaged by a fire-based spell. Or does it mean that at any point, after the fireball damage, up to the Hydras' turn any additional fire-based damage would negate the regrown of a head(s)?
So if the Hydra took non-fire damage that removed ahead and then the Hydra took damage from Fire Bolt before its turn it would not regrow its two heads.
So if the Hydra took non-fire damage that removed ahead and then the Hydra took damage from Fire Bolt before its turn it would not regrow its two heads.
Correct. It works the other way around too (taking fire damage, then losing a head).
The hydra actually has the odds pretty stacked against it.
Also if the hydra lost a head and took fire damage it can't regrow those heads on a later turn either. Each losing of a head only gets 1 chance to regrow which gets cancelled if any fire damage was done.
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An encounter I'm working on is will have a Hydra. I know the Wizard in the party, whose spells are mostly fire-based, will cast a fireball at this creature and could definitely take out one of the Hydras' heads so I'm trying to understand the following rule.
Question:
Say, the Wizard does cast a fireball and takes out one of the Hydra's head on its turn would it NOT regrow the two heads because it was damaged by a fire-based spell. Or does it mean that at any point, after the fireball damage, up to the Hydras' turn any additional fire-based damage would negate the regrown of a head(s)?
It would not regrow heads. The fire damage is checked since the hydra's turn, not since it took damage.
So if the Hydra took non-fire damage that removed ahead and then the Hydra took damage from Fire Bolt before its turn it would not regrow its two heads.
Correct. It works the other way around too (taking fire damage, then losing a head).
The hydra actually has the odds pretty stacked against it.
Also if the hydra lost a head and took fire damage it can't regrow those heads on a later turn either. Each losing of a head only gets 1 chance to regrow which gets cancelled if any fire damage was done.