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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8713723" data-attributes="member: 93670">Her walking around as an undead with a physical corporeal body for thousands of years rules out the whole target the zombie & similar ideas thrown about.  The spells themselves are worded in ways that practically beg the gm to flesh them out because creature & such was never explicitly defined<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Revivify: "You touch a creature that has died within the last minute.". <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A dead creature (typically )leaves behind a corpse.  <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremyecrawford/status/752915549294891008?lang=en" target="_blank">A corpse is an object</a>. The GM must either define what is a valid target or allow it to target the corpse object that was a creature within the last minute...</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Reincarnate: "You touch a dead humanoid or a piece of a dead humanoid."<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This one works as written but you might need to have a piece from before they became undead since f/ex a zombie is a medium undead & no longer humanoid</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">raise dead: "You return a dead creature you touch to life, provided that it has been dead no longer than 10 days."<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">again creature was never defined and a corpse is an object.  The GM must define what is a valid target or modify the spell to allow targeting of a corpse that was a living creature no longer than 10 days ago... of course the undead are not alive so even if targeting a corpse is allowed there is a timer running</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">True Resurrection: "You touch a creature that has been dead for no longer than 200 years and that died for any reason except old age."  <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Again corpse=object not creature, gm needs to step in & all.</li> </ul></li> </ul>Your interpretation would be stronger if the spells were worded better & three of the four the spells didn't require the GM to define a valid target.</blockquote>

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