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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6085768" data-attributes="member: 2067">Each time the character benefits from Revenance, there's a chance that they come back....wrong....Maybe they can't use their body very well (roll 1d10 instead of 1d20!). Maybe they smell of brimstone for a moment (gain the Fiendish template until your next sleep). Maybe they see things that are not really there (penalty to Wisdom rolls). Maybe when they touch their friends, they leave an icy patch on the skin. Maybe they can only speak in tongues. Maybe they swap personalities (random alignment change!). Each time they are revenance'd, there's a chance that this happens...and an additional chance that it becomes permanent. Personally, I'd probably rule that a creature who benefits from revenance isn't actually restored to life: if the revivification isn't cast on them within that round time span, they're still dead...they just don't really know it yet. When the revenance ends, so does their life, irrevocably. Quite possibly, mix in those nefarious signs for the rest of the duration of the revenance....perhaps they become undead when its duration ends, turning on their former friends? I'm all for making the use of revenance dangerous and untrustworthy. It's not the kind of spell you depend on, it's the kind of spell you use as a last resort, to pull someone back from the brink for a moment, before they must pass on forever.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6085768, member: 2067"] Each time the character benefits from [I]Revenance[/I], there's a chance that they come back....wrong.... Maybe they can't use their body very well (roll 1d10 instead of 1d20!). Maybe they smell of brimstone for a moment (gain the Fiendish template until your next sleep). Maybe they see things that are not really there (penalty to Wisdom rolls). Maybe when they touch their friends, they leave an icy patch on the skin. Maybe they can only speak in tongues. Maybe they swap personalities (random alignment change!). Each time they are [i]revenance[/i]'d, there's a chance that this happens...and an additional chance that it becomes permanent. Personally, I'd probably rule that a creature who benefits from [i]revenance[/I] isn't actually restored to life: if the [I]revivification[/I] isn't cast on them within that round time span, they're still dead...they just don't really know it yet. When the [I]revenance[/I] ends, so does their life, irrevocably. Quite possibly, mix in those nefarious signs for the rest of the duration of the [i]revenance[/I]....perhaps they become undead when its duration ends, turning on their former friends? I'm all for making the use of [I]revenance[/I] dangerous and untrustworthy. It's not the kind of spell you depend on, it's the kind of spell you use as a last resort, to pull someone back from the brink for a moment, before they must pass on forever. [/QUOTE]

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