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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 8139696" data-attributes="member: 40176"><p>I play up the "soul must be free and willing to return" part. For PCs, resurrection is automatic unless the player doesn't want their character to come back, and for anyone, <em>Revivify</em> is near-certain to succeed because the soul effectively hasn't really departed yet.</p><p></p><p>But for everyone else, once that first minute has passed, the chance of a person's soul being both willing and able to return once it has reached the afterlife is minimal - maybe 1% of cases at best. In most cases, whatever state of existence the soul winds up in is on a level so far outside the scope of the mortal realm that the material plane feels insignificant. Maybe they miss friends, family or loved ones, but in terms of how they now perceive things it will be little more than an eyeblink before those they knew pass on and have a chance to join them. It requires something highly unusual for any cause to still seem compelling enough after death to draw them back to the mortal realm.</p><p></p><p>Plus, in the lower planes, souls are a prized resource, and many of those who die never have the chance to ascend to that higher state of being - instead, their souls are captured by fiends and traded like trinkets.</p><p></p><p>Either way, for a deceased NPC, the chances of returning to life are minimal. That's not to say that it's never attempted, but in almost all cases where a formal member of a religious order is consulted, they'll start by casting <em>commune</em> and asking "If I attempt to resurrect <insert name here>, will their soul return to this mortal realm?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 8139696, member: 40176"] I play up the "soul must be free and willing to return" part. For PCs, resurrection is automatic unless the player doesn't want their character to come back, and for anyone, [I]Revivify[/I] is near-certain to succeed because the soul effectively hasn't really departed yet. But for everyone else, once that first minute has passed, the chance of a person's soul being both willing and able to return once it has reached the afterlife is minimal - maybe 1% of cases at best. In most cases, whatever state of existence the soul winds up in is on a level so far outside the scope of the mortal realm that the material plane feels insignificant. Maybe they miss friends, family or loved ones, but in terms of how they now perceive things it will be little more than an eyeblink before those they knew pass on and have a chance to join them. It requires something highly unusual for any cause to still seem compelling enough after death to draw them back to the mortal realm. Plus, in the lower planes, souls are a prized resource, and many of those who die never have the chance to ascend to that higher state of being - instead, their souls are captured by fiends and traded like trinkets. Either way, for a deceased NPC, the chances of returning to life are minimal. That's not to say that it's never attempted, but in almost all cases where a formal member of a religious order is consulted, they'll start by casting [I]commune[/I] and asking "If I attempt to resurrect <insert name here>, will their soul return to this mortal realm?" [/QUOTE]
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