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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7564006" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>In part this depend on how powerful the gods are in your world, and how your DM runs them. Even Commune is typically only yes, no or unclear. Gods in my campaign are not omnipotent in part because otherwise players will always try to ask 20 questions to bypass any kind of mystery.</p><p></p><p>But there's another option. What if it's the god of the cleric that takes you for some reason? Again, depends on campaign but could there be a "special mission" he needed you for, perhaps some hidden past secret?</p><p></p><p>Another option is to simply kill your character in such a way that no remains are available to the rest of the party (lava/cave-in/eaten by a purple worm that then runs away) there are any number of possibilities. But, for whatever reason the BBEG finds your remains and resurrects you. Perhaps they didn't even mean to, it was just a case of mistaken identity. Or a high level cleric finds your remains and just takes pity on you. Maybe he's been hunting that purple worm and finally finds it's hidden lair and a pile of bones.</p><p></p><p>Or it just happens. Your PC doesn't even know why, just one day they woke up. Perhaps the gods for whatever reason send you back because you have unfinished business or you win a hand of poker against Thor or whatever makes sense.</p><p></p><p>People come back from the dead in fiction all the time, with magic there's plenty of ways of doing it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7564006, member: 6801845"] In part this depend on how powerful the gods are in your world, and how your DM runs them. Even Commune is typically only yes, no or unclear. Gods in my campaign are not omnipotent in part because otherwise players will always try to ask 20 questions to bypass any kind of mystery. But there's another option. What if it's the god of the cleric that takes you for some reason? Again, depends on campaign but could there be a "special mission" he needed you for, perhaps some hidden past secret? Another option is to simply kill your character in such a way that no remains are available to the rest of the party (lava/cave-in/eaten by a purple worm that then runs away) there are any number of possibilities. But, for whatever reason the BBEG finds your remains and resurrects you. Perhaps they didn't even mean to, it was just a case of mistaken identity. Or a high level cleric finds your remains and just takes pity on you. Maybe he's been hunting that purple worm and finally finds it's hidden lair and a pile of bones. Or it just happens. Your PC doesn't even know why, just one day they woke up. Perhaps the gods for whatever reason send you back because you have unfinished business or you win a hand of poker against Thor or whatever makes sense. People come back from the dead in fiction all the time, with magic there's plenty of ways of doing it. [/QUOTE]
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