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Message: <blockquote data-quote="STARP_Social_Officer" data-source="post: 3355382" data-attributes="member: 41202">Having never played a druid, I have only a limited experience of the reincarnation spell. Specifically, it's been used just once in our group, and that was to bring back an elf NPC (who was actually a demon in an elf's body - long story) as a halfling. But yesterday I read the spell description idly while thumbing through my PHB looking for something else, and it struck me that the reincarnation spell is seven different shades of cool. There is so much fun players and DMs alike can have with this spell! I imagine a situation where the BBEG has his own druid (unknown to the PCs) who just keeps bringing him back to life as something else every time they kill him - and they'll never know who he is until he comes to get them. I see all kinds of psychological challenges to a PC who is returned to life via the spell - what if an elf or a dwarf came back as an orc? Paging Druid Freud! And what about the legal wranglings? I can imagine an entire adventure about a reincarnated character attempting to prove that he is who he claims to be, since a reincarnation spell is totally undetectable (unlike a polymorph, which shows up under scan) because you really are an elf brought back as a hobgoblin or whatever. How would family react? The role-playing possibilities inherent in this spell are a storyteller's wet dream! This is an ultra-cool spell, and I think now it ranks as one of my favourites, though, as I say, I've never played a druid and have never actually used it. Since I seem to be DM most of the time these days, I'm going to have to come up with some "fun with reincarnation" scenarios. The only thing that's sucky is that they replaced the 3.0 table with the 3.5 one, which precludes the prospect of coming back as some kind of animal. That would be even more fun, but I guess there's nothing stopping you rolling on the old table anyway. Does anybody have some wacky stories about this spell? I'd love to hear what karma-riffic shenanigans people have got up to?</blockquote>

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