I've been reading some information, but it seems from the Speak with Dead specifies that a body without a soul can't learn and can't comprehend new things. I was wondering if this affects constructs, so they could learn spells and become spellcasters or they can simply become spellcasters without any restrictions?
Yeah, this game never does actually define "a soul". The elemental spirits animating constructs could be out have their own souls.
Additionally, that spell doesn't say that things can't learn anything if they don't have a soul. It just says that this particular magic temporarily animates a body without returning it to life with its soul. One effect of this bargain-basement reanimation is that the corpse won't learn anything past the moment of its death. This spell should not be taken as metaphysical law regarding the nature of souls.
They're trying to introduce Autognomes, a fully Construct type player character option. You'd be hard pressed to make the argument that anyone anywhere is going to expect a PC to play their character as if they "can't learn and can't comprehend new things".
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I'm probably laughing.
It is apparently so hard to program Aberrant Mind and Clockwork Soul spell-swapping into dndbeyond they had to remake the game without it rather than implement it.
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I've been reading some information, but it seems from the Speak with Dead specifies that a body without a soul can't learn and can't comprehend new things. I was wondering if this affects constructs, so they could learn spells and become spellcasters or they can simply become spellcasters without any restrictions?
There are no type-wide rules in 5E. You can have a construct with a soul, for example - there's no rule against it.
Yeah, this game never does actually define "a soul". The elemental spirits animating constructs could be out have their own souls.
Additionally, that spell doesn't say that things can't learn anything if they don't have a soul. It just says that this particular magic temporarily animates a body without returning it to life with its soul. One effect of this bargain-basement reanimation is that the corpse won't learn anything past the moment of its death. This spell should not be taken as metaphysical law regarding the nature of souls.
They're trying to introduce Autognomes, a fully Construct type player character option. You'd be hard pressed to make the argument that anyone anywhere is going to expect a PC to play their character as if they "can't learn and can't comprehend new things".
I'm probably laughing.
It is apparently so hard to program Aberrant Mind and Clockwork Soul spell-swapping into dndbeyond they had to remake the game without it rather than implement it.