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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 1862140" data-attributes="member: 9646">Mmmmh... I still don't know what to think. For one thing I don't want to go into a RL religious discussion, so cannot discuss about what the soul is supposed to be, or if such a thing exists at all. But then there is the problem of game mechanics in D&D. After all, the "cool" fantasy stuff is what happens when one hides his soul into a special container, or that his soul is stolen.[Just for the anecdote: as a DM, once, a sorcerer obliged the PCs to perform a mission for him, because he had "stolen their souls" and would give them back once the mission comleted. In fact, the sorcerer had cast illusion and suggestion spells on them. The PCs did what asked because they were afraid, but their souls weren't involved in any way! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ]Right now, I would suggest that the soul is an immaterial and immortal principle that has to do with morality, as related to the 9 alignments. The soul reincarnates as much as it is necessary to acquire one such alignment, then becomes an outsider (angel, fiend, etc.). I would say that a character whose soul is not in his body cannot make moral or immoral choices; and to add something shouldn't be able to gain XPs. Then, the character slowly dies or turns into a living zombie, although it takes several weeks. What I would like to find, is something simple; but something that gives interesting consequences when someone's soul is not anymore in his body. Then, only fiends should be able to steal a soul, and only of people who have virtually sold their soul to Hell anyway (such as evil necromancers). Those people would be interested in hiding their soul, but other characters would not have to be afraid. The fact is, if a much evil mage would die, his soul would go directly into Hell / Abysses, and no Resurection spell could bring him back, unless an evil god decides so (while a non-evil character could be resurected without problem). As such, evil necromancers and the like hide their soul so won't go to hell if their body is killed, but will remain in the container, etc.</blockquote>

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