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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Slander" data-source="post: 4774425" data-attributes="member: 1593">Going to join the chorus on the first set of questions: it's just magic. Neither my players nor myself have really questioned the polymorphic spells.As for the others, Animate Dead: No real change. Fundamentally the same as animate object.Create Undead: Binds a soul which has not yet crossed over into the underworld with a dab of Khaos, driving the soul mad. We're using a Greek inspired campaign, so if you are unable to pay the ferryman for passage to the underworld after you die, your soul must wait 100 years before he'll give you free passage.Raise Dead/Resurrection: Only clerics of Hades can do this safely, and they must be convinced to do so. Non-Hades clerics can attempt it, but they run a high risk of inadvertently casting Create Undead. In either case, this can only be done if the soul has not crossed into the underworld. If the soul has crossed over, you've got to journey to the underworld and petition Hades directly for the release of a soul.Reincarnation: Not generally available; special case spell. Does not create a new body. Instead, it infuses the soul either into the body of an unborn (unborn whatever, not necessarily the original race), or into an existing body as the body's original soul is leaving. More of a plot device spell than one available to the PCs. In the decade I've been with my group, it's never come close to coming up, even before we went Greek.Wish/Miracle: Asking a god if s/he'll put in a good word with Hades on your (and the departed's) behalf. Likely going to come with a whole bunch of strings. Probably not worth the trouble. Also not much of an issue since we have yet to get to those levels in our games.Beyond those spells, it is theoretically possible to journey into the Aidao (realm between the living and the dead where souls wait to be ferried to the underworld), find the departed soul you're seeking, and bring it back to the land of the living with you. Theoretically, because to date, no one in our group has tried.</blockquote>

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