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<blockquote data-quote="Harzel" data-source="post: 7635050" data-attributes="member: 6857506">You seem to be neglecting one word in the spell description.&nbsp; (I'm assuming you meant Gentle Repose when you typed revivify.)To me, &quot;also&quot; indicates that the time extension is in addition to the effects in the first paragraph, not a consequence of them.&nbsp; So my reading would be that Gentle Repose does whatever is necessary to grant the time extension, including keeping the soul from moving on if that's what you think Revivify requires.&nbsp; I suppose you could argue that Revivify is not included in the set of spells &quot;such as Raise Dead&quot; but that seems to me to require dragging in a lot of reasoning that goes beyond a plain reading of the spell descriptions.All that said, adjusting spells that bring the dead back to life to fit your cosmology seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do (with the usual caveat that everybody knows about it upfront).If one wanted to split the baby, Gentle Repose could grant a shorter extension for Revivify than it does for other spells that bring the dead back to life - maybe 1 day instead of 10.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Harzel, post: 7635050, member: 6857506"] You seem to be neglecting one word in the spell description. (I'm assuming you meant Gentle Repose when you typed revivify.) To me, "also" indicates that the time extension is in addition to the effects in the first paragraph, not a consequence of them. So my reading would be that [I]Gentle Repose[/I] does whatever is necessary to grant the time extension, including keeping the soul from moving on if that's what you think [I]Revivify[/I] requires. I suppose you could argue that [I]Revivify[/I] is not included in the set of spells "such as [I]Raise Dead" [/I] but that seems to me to require dragging in a lot of reasoning that goes beyond a plain reading of the spell descriptions. All that said, adjusting spells that bring the dead back to life to fit your cosmology seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do (with the usual caveat that everybody knows about it upfront). If one wanted to split the baby, [I]Gentle Repose[/I] could grant a shorter extension for [I]Revivify[/I] than it does for other spells that bring the dead back to life - maybe 1 day instead of 10. [/QUOTE]

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