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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7321274" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, AD&D Reincarnation was another of the weird litany of Gygax trying to gimp every race that wasn't human. Actually I think Dwarves can be resurrected (and halflings definitely can), oddly, but then they have basically 2 class choices and severe level limits, so I guess they'd already gotten their quota. That being said, it was a somewhat amusing exercise, though really all it served to do was get you a good excuse to run some weird race as a PC, like a gnoll or something. The reincarnated character was basically a whole new PC, it was never exactly spelled out in what way it was worthwhile to pay for this spell vs just rerolling a new character. I guess the reincarnated character had some tenuous claim on the old PC's stuff? I dunno...Not that reincarnation, in the sort of form you're talking about, being in a new body, etc wouldn't be cool! I just never 'got' what was ACTUALLY cool about it in AD&D, nor what was actually cool about elves being dinked out of being rezz'd. So, I concur, a ritual that brought your spirit back and reanimated some nearby dead body, or created a new body, or gave you renewed life but with slightly sharper teeth, etc. would be cool. In fact it would tie well into the folklore of these sorts of things, which is quite rich!</blockquote>