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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TaranTheWanderer" data-source="post: 7849619" data-attributes="member: 15882">Well, resurrection doesn't work at all if the soul isn't willing.  You can't actually, offensively, resurrect people for the purposes of torturing them over and over.  So, since a lich has willingly made himself undead, the spell would auto-fail.  It would deny him his 'immortality' and he would never accept that.  It might be the same for most intelligent 'natural' undead. (like those Giant negative energy ones...I forget what they're called)  Zombies and the like would have unwilling 'tortured' souls trapped inside.  A vampire is a hedge case.  They probably weren't willing participants when they were turned, but now they might deny a Resurrection.   So you might have to do it on a case-by-case basis or put in a saving throw.</blockquote>