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Lethality, AD&D, and 5e: Looking Back at the Deadliest Edition
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9072427" data-attributes="member: 7023840"><p>Interesting. </p><p></p><p>So to extrapolate from this, perhaps the Raise Dead rule was written, then halflings were added, and the fact that Halflings couldn't be raised from the dead was just an unfortunate by-product of the labyrinthine rules.</p><p></p><p>Building on that, when the spell was revisited for AD&D, Gygax noticed this, and made the deliberate decision to exclude Elves and Half-Orcs.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I can buy all of this. Definitely a working theory. <em>But it still doesn't explain why, if the distinction is the spirit/soul thing per Deities and Demigods, why a Rod of Resurrection, and only the Rod, works.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9072427, member: 7023840"] Interesting. So to extrapolate from this, perhaps the Raise Dead rule was written, then halflings were added, and the fact that Halflings couldn't be raised from the dead was just an unfortunate by-product of the labyrinthine rules. Building on that, when the spell was revisited for AD&D, Gygax noticed this, and made the deliberate decision to exclude Elves and Half-Orcs. I can buy all of this. Definitely a working theory. [I]But it still doesn't explain why, if the distinction is the spirit/soul thing per Deities and Demigods, why a Rod of Resurrection, and only the Rod, works.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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