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<blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 5762889" data-attributes="member: 10177">First off, I am talking about this far more in the context of pre 3E than D&amp;D since 3E, but it has some obvious carry over, so it does definitely apply to 3E and Pathfinder as well. I don't remember if it is in 4E, so let me know if it does, I'm not pulling out my 4E books to check.Anyways, how far have you taken the implications of Reincarnation in your games? Essentially, for the cost of 1 level, you are reborn, nice and young, in a completely new body.Sure, you might come back as an animal, but so what?In 2E and 1E Druids have a hierarchy. Going up to 15th level in 1E, and 23rd or so in 2E. 3E and presumably 4E can have similar hierarchies as well.So if this hierarchy, which believes in reincarnation, keeps reincarnating themselves, at the cost of 1 level, how many Druids would be running around a world in which such an organization has been around for a few centuries? A thousand years? 3 thousand years? What would their levels be like with multiple lives so possible? How powerful would their organizations truly be?How far have any of you gone with this? Are there any settings out there with this explored?I would think this has been discussed before, so anyone who is a master of the search functions, please, link them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Treebore, post: 5762889, member: 10177"] First off, I am talking about this far more in the context of pre 3E than D&D since 3E, but it has some obvious carry over, so it does definitely apply to 3E and Pathfinder as well. I don't remember if it is in 4E, so let me know if it does, I'm not pulling out my 4E books to check. Anyways, how far have you taken the implications of Reincarnation in your games? Essentially, for the cost of 1 level, you are reborn, nice and young, in a completely new body. Sure, you might come back as an animal, but so what? In 2E and 1E Druids have a hierarchy. Going up to 15th level in 1E, and 23rd or so in 2E. 3E and presumably 4E can have similar hierarchies as well. So if this hierarchy, which believes in reincarnation, keeps reincarnating themselves, at the cost of 1 level, how many Druids would be running around a world in which such an organization has been around for a few centuries? A thousand years? 3 thousand years? What would their levels be like with multiple lives so possible? How powerful would their organizations truly be? How far have any of you gone with this? Are there any settings out there with this explored? I would think this has been discussed before, so anyone who is a master of the search functions, please, link them. [/QUOTE]

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