As an item that states, "While wearing this nondescript brooch, spells and anything else that would detect or reveal your creature type treat you as humanoid, and those that would reveal your alignment treat it as neutral."
Would the Brooch of Living Essence allows spells such as Cure Wounds and Healing Word actually allow its wearer to be healed even when their creature type (undead or construct) normally would not? Additionally would it counteract things such as the extra damage of a Paladin's Divine Smite? Or also cause the wearer to be susceptible to spells such as Charm Person, which state only affect a humanoid target? As not being able to be affected by spells that normal humanoids do, would technically reveal that you are not in fact humanoid.
And while it's immediate intention may have been directed towards divination spells and abilities and etc., just how far would the "and anything else" go? If the wearer is a skeleton, which is very obviously undead by simply looking at it, would it actually cover up their physical appearance with that of a basic humanoid?
What it means is anything with the effect of detecting/revealing...
You are not turned into a humanoid by the item, so spells and features, etc that do or don't do something to your creature type work as normal.
Similarly, the item does not have the effect of changing your appearance, so it doesn't.
"Anything else," may not have been the best choice of words but they meant: features, feats, traits, magic items, actions, bonus actions, legendary actions, reactions, locations, and magic effects. I think that is everything that could have a detection effect.
I definitely see your point there, as it way that I read its description while first going through the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. And I also thank you so very much for sharing your feedback on the matter.
These questions are definitely a pretty big stretch when looking over the relatively short and simple description this item has. I just find the (while probably poorly chosen) unintentionally rather open wording to be wording truly fascinating, and as a result have fallen in love with the of this item I normally wouldn't give a second glance because of these ideas it has spurred.
As an item that states, "While wearing this nondescript brooch, spells and anything else that would detect or reveal your creature type treat you as humanoid, and those that would reveal your alignment treat it as neutral."
Would the Brooch of Living Essence allows spells such as Cure Wounds and Healing Word actually allow its wearer to be healed even when their creature type (undead or construct) normally would not? Additionally would it counteract things such as the extra damage of a Paladin's Divine Smite? Or also cause the wearer to be susceptible to spells such as Charm Person, which state only affect a humanoid target? As not being able to be affected by spells that normal humanoids do, would technically reveal that you are not in fact humanoid.
And while it's immediate intention may have been directed towards divination spells and abilities and etc., just how far would the "and anything else" go? If the wearer is a skeleton, which is very obviously undead by simply looking at it, would it actually cover up their physical appearance with that of a basic humanoid?
What it means is anything with the effect of detecting/revealing...
You are not turned into a humanoid by the item, so spells and features, etc that do or don't do something to your creature type work as normal.
Similarly, the item does not have the effect of changing your appearance, so it doesn't.
"Anything else," may not have been the best choice of words but they meant: features, feats, traits, magic items, actions, bonus actions, legendary actions, reactions, locations, and magic effects. I think that is everything that could have a detection effect.
I definitely see your point there, as it way that I read its description while first going through the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. And I also thank you so very much for sharing your feedback on the matter.
These questions are definitely a pretty big stretch when looking over the relatively short and simple description this item has. I just find the (while probably poorly chosen) unintentionally rather open wording to be wording truly fascinating, and as a result have fallen in love with the of this item I normally wouldn't give a second glance because of these ideas it has spurred.