Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7068607" data-attributes="member: 6796661">The target is clearly &quot;a dead creature.&quot; If it simply said &quot;creature,&quot; than your concern over whether a corpse is a creature or an object may be relevant, but it clearly states &quot;dead creature.&quot; There is no ambiguity here.The area where their is ambiguity is that the Resurrection spell states that &quot;You touch a dead creature.&quot;&nbsp; Who is &quot;you&quot; when cast by a glyph? Is the object that glyph is on the &quot;you&quot; so that you can read it as &quot;after touching the corpse to the glyph, the glyph casts resurrection...&quot;I would say that is how it works. A glyph shouldn't impart spell-casting ability to someone, rather it causes the magical effects of a spell stored there to go off. In effect, a spell caster has already cast the spell but by casting it into the glyph the spells effects are delayed until a trigger occurs. What the DM has to rule on is whether all components for casting thee spell can be met so that it can be cast as part of creating the glyph. With resurrection, it would be logical to rule that since you don't have the corpse with you at the time of the casting, and since the casting requires that you touch &quot;a dead creature&quot;, then you can't cast the resurrection spell as part of creating the glyph. On the other hand, in a high-magic setting, I think that it would be appropriate for a DM to allow it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 7068607, member: 6796661"] The target is clearly "a dead creature." If it simply said "creature," than your concern over whether a corpse is a creature or an object may be relevant, but it clearly states "dead creature." There is no ambiguity here. The area where their is ambiguity is that the Resurrection spell states that "You touch a dead creature." Who is "you" when cast by a glyph? Is the object that glyph is on the "you" so that you can read it as "after touching the corpse to the glyph, the glyph casts resurrection..." I would say that is how it works. A glyph shouldn't impart spell-casting ability to someone, rather it causes the magical effects of a spell stored there to go off. In effect, a spell caster has already cast the spell but by casting it into the glyph the spells effects are delayed until a trigger occurs. What the DM has to rule on is whether all components for casting thee spell can be met so that it can be cast as part of creating the glyph. With resurrection, it would be logical to rule that since you don't have the corpse with you at the time of the casting, and since the casting requires that you touch "a dead creature", then you can't cast the resurrection spell as part of creating the glyph. On the other hand, in a high-magic setting, I think that it would be appropriate for a DM to allow it. [/QUOTE]

Verification