jasper
Rotten DM
OH PLEASE NOT AGAIN PRAKRITTI. COULD AT LEAST THIS TIME START WITH MY FOOT AND NOT THE EARS!.I'd resurrect 'em just so I could eat 'em again.
OH PLEASE NOT AGAIN PRAKRITTI. COULD AT LEAST THIS TIME START WITH MY FOOT AND NOT THE EARS!.I'd resurrect 'em just so I could eat 'em again.
But.....wouldn't you get suddenly very hungry, and maybe starve, if you last meal was ressurected right out of your belly?
mmm good mmm good! Soup made out the Campbells is mmm mmm good!Warning: I'm bored. Also this may veer into uncomfortable territory.
So the subject here is Need based emergency cannibalism in a situation that, in the real world, would be considered forgivable. I.e. marooned on a barren island, trapped by an avalanche, e.t.c.
Also for our purpose here we will consider the eating of ANY creature of humanlike or greater intelligence cannibalism. Debates and loopholes of the "if I'm a human and i eat a gnome is it really cannibalism?" nature should go elsewhere.
You're marooned on a desert island with a group of people. You have no supplies and no magic that would provide supplies or escape. Eventually, one of you succumbs to starvation, and the rest of you, in desperation, eat them.
Subsequently, you are rescued.
The eaten party can be restored by the 7th level spell resurrection. Since you obviously aren't casters of that power level, you would have to find someone who could cast it for you.
This would cost at least 2500 gold
So here's the question: how great is your duty of care? How responsible are you to restore them?
Yeah, in my campaigns I tend to emphasise the whole "soul must be free and willing to return" clause, and make it clear that when it comes to NPCs, only a very small percentage meet those criteria. Those who've gone to a "good place" afterlife aren't going to want to give it up for mortality, and those who have gone in the other direction won't find it easy to escape their torment. Even for those in between, the afterlife opens up whole new vistas and perspectives which make mortal existence seem paltry and irrelevant. For anyone other than a PC, any resurrection magic beyond revivify will likely be a waste of diamonds.I have always seen the Revivify / Raise Dead / Resurrection spells not as actual parts of the setting or game world, but merely as game-playing conveniences. This is why kings and queens and nobles and high-ranking clergymen etc. all can die early in their lives as the story requires... without not just get raised again and again and again until old age finally catches up with them. If raising the dead was so ubiquitous, it would become commonplace. And truth be told also a lot easier and cheaper to do over time, such to the point that even the middle class and at some point even the lower classes could do it.
No, being Hungry isnt just about need for food, theres also hunger brought on by habit and pleasure seeking (ie Hunger cased by want of Chocolate not because you need it). Hungry is a condition trigged by a complex set of hormones in the body and brain which signal when energy stores are running low And cause Hunger hormones in the stomach and intestines to rise but then become suppressed as soon as a person starts eating as satisfaction hormones restore homeostasis.
I'd resurrect 'em just so I could eat 'em again.
Warning: I'm bored. Also this may veer into uncomfortable territory.
So the subject here is Need based emergency cannibalism in a situation that, in the real world, would be considered forgivable. I.e. marooned on a barren island, trapped by an avalanche, e.t.c.
Also for our purpose here we will consider the eating of ANY creature of humanlike or greater intelligence cannibalism. Debates and loopholes of the "if I'm a human and i eat a gnome is it really cannibalism?" nature should go elsewhere.
You're marooned on a desert island with a group of people. You have no supplies and no magic that would provide supplies or escape. Eventually, one of you succumbs to starvation, and the rest of you, in desperation, eat them.
Subsequently, you are rescued.
The eaten party can be restored by the 7th level spell resurrection. Since you obviously aren't casters of that power level, you would have to find someone who could cast it for you.
This would cost at least 2500 gold
So here's the question: how great is your duty of care? How responsible are you to restore them?