red_kangaroo wrote
It would be great if the system could swap your Int and Wis when your head is swapped.
I don't think it should kill you to get a skeleton head - not realistic, but awsome to walk around with a bare skull for head.
After all, it's undead, so it has some magic to get you going.
In my mind the "player" would stay with the head. In that sense, having a fleshy head on an un-fleshy skeleton would probably be akin to being decapitated, and similarly fatal in short order: No heart to pump blood into the brain, not to mention somewhere for blood to go on the way out of the brain other than onto the floor. Similarly a golemn doesn't have lungs, so a human head on a golemn's body would suffocate pretty quick too, even if it kept the blood.
For that matter, any living limb that ends up on a non-living monster would die (and become zombie flesh?) pretty fast. Legs don't do too well without fresh, oxygenated blood either...