Greenfield
Adventurer
The situation came up in game: We killed an enemy who, for reasons of alignment and RP issues, we would have preferred to take him alive.
We don't have access to Revive Outsider (he was an Efreet), but upon reading the Polymorph Any Object spell, it appears that you can turn an inanimate object into a living creature, at least for a time.
Examples in the spell description include pebble to mouse, or marionette to human.
Turning the dead and mangled remains of the Efreet into the living Efreet would theoretically work. Moreover, by the numbers, it would be permanent.
Same Kingdom (in the Animal/Vegetable/Mineral sense), same class, same size category, and related. The plus factors total to +11, and anything over +9 is permanent.
Now PAO is 8th level, so it's technically more powerful than Raise Dead or Resurrection, but to me this looks like it deserves a healthy dose of Dispel BS.
We don't have access to Revive Outsider (he was an Efreet), but upon reading the Polymorph Any Object spell, it appears that you can turn an inanimate object into a living creature, at least for a time.
Examples in the spell description include pebble to mouse, or marionette to human.
Turning the dead and mangled remains of the Efreet into the living Efreet would theoretically work. Moreover, by the numbers, it would be permanent.
Same Kingdom (in the Animal/Vegetable/Mineral sense), same class, same size category, and related. The plus factors total to +11, and anything over +9 is permanent.
Now PAO is 8th level, so it's technically more powerful than Raise Dead or Resurrection, but to me this looks like it deserves a healthy dose of Dispel BS.