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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyronax" data-source="post: 3666" data-attributes="member: 822">raisingsWow very thourough. I like your take on raising the dead actually. I just DMed the RttToEE (never able to finish it though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> ), and the party had a very tense argument with Canoness Y'Dey (of St. Cuthber) so that she'd raise the party's orcish tank Gorbag (om/f6/tn - Str. 20, Int 6, Wis 6). Gorbag definetely wasn't the most redeeming character I've let a player create in my campaigns, he was roleplayed fairly well though. The player was able to play the part of a very stupid warrior. Somehow the party convinced her/me to let her cast the raise dead spell. Part of my trouble with saying no to them (and I now know that I should have) was the nature of that module (which assumes a priest will sell most spells) and also the poorly written entry for the Raise Dead spell in general. I think that your Geas idead for the Resurrection spell is interesting. Earlier I was thinking of making any raising or resurrecting involve the raised character to  automatically be assumed to have had an atonement spell placed on the character. This atonement would in affect allow for the character to move towards whatever ideal, alignment, or goal that the deity allowing the raising wants in return for the character's life. This atonement would have allowed Gorbag to have come back most probably as a newly LN character. He would have been so overcome by the righteousness of St. Cuthbert's brand of order, that he would switch from his previuos hand-to-mouth existence in which he had no concept of good or evil (remember he was dumber than the average orc). He could have become a still stupid and crude warrior, but now he might become sort of a cross between Forest Gump (who was a very lawful character) and a by the book police officier. C.I.D.</blockquote>

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