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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 807455" data-attributes="member: 463">1e had a life force/soul distinction.  You need the life force to raise the dead, and it would be trapped in the body of the undead form (hence undead couldn't be raised).  It could be dispersed by eg destruction of undead form, by death magic (eg 'finger of death', 'death spell'), or by a failed resurrection survival roll.Souls by contrast are a lot tougher/intangible, although they could be trapped, I don't think there was any official way to destroy one.  Generally speaking, a soul would not be trapped in an undead form, bar some kind of evil magic.  On death the soul went to an eternal afterlife.  Elves and most other nonhumans had spirits rather than souls, this meant they couldn't be 'raised' and would eventually reincarnate.3e seems to have got rid of the life force idea, so all you need is the soul, making it very hard to keep dead (N)PCs dead! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think this was a mistake so I keep the life force/soul distinction.</blockquote>