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<blockquote data-quote="TheNoremac42" data-source="post: 7353320" data-attributes="member: 6889146">TL;DR: Does the Revivify spell work on people that have already been turned into specters?So my group and I are just finishing up The Lost Mines of Phandelver. The Black Spider surrendered after the party killed all his spiders and bugbear guards. However, earlier in the dungeon when the party encountered Mormesk the Wraith, the CN monk rolled a nat 20 to swipe the spirit's pipe. Naturally, when he discovered it was missing, he got pissed.As the party was making its way out of the mines, Mormesk intercepted them with a retinue of undead. Mormesk knew one of them had stolen his pipe, but he didn't know who. He demanded that the pipe and the thief be turned over to him, or he would kill the whole party. Thanks to the party's divination wizard, Mormesk took a nat 1 on insight when the party blamed the Black Spider. Nezznar, gagged and handless, could not refute this claim and was promptly killed by the wraith and turned into a specter.The party skedaddled out of there after a stern warning from Mormesk to never return. However, they want to turn Nezznar in for a bounty and believe he would be worth a lot more alive, so they rush to the exit of the cave and try to cast revivify on him - keeping in mind the cut-off time. This is where things get tricky... Nezznar's spirit has already left his body in the form of a specter, so what would the spell do? We determined three options:1. The specter is destroyed and Nezznar is restored to life, which would no doubt anger Mormesk.2. The specter is not destroyed, and Nezznar is restored to life... but he is a vegetable. This is due to the spell only reviving the physical body and not returning the spirit.3. The spell fizzles out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheNoremac42, post: 7353320, member: 6889146"] TL;DR: Does the Revivify spell work on people that have already been turned into specters? So my group and I are just finishing up The Lost Mines of Phandelver. The Black Spider surrendered after the party killed all his spiders and bugbear guards. However, earlier in the dungeon when the party encountered Mormesk the Wraith, the CN monk rolled a nat 20 to swipe the spirit's pipe. Naturally, when he discovered it was missing, he got pissed. As the party was making its way out of the mines, Mormesk intercepted them with a retinue of undead. Mormesk knew one of them had stolen his pipe, but he didn't know who. He demanded that the pipe and the thief be turned over to him, or he would kill the whole party. Thanks to the party's divination wizard, Mormesk took a nat 1 on insight when the party blamed the Black Spider. Nezznar, gagged and handless, could not refute this claim and was promptly killed by the wraith and turned into a specter. The party skedaddled out of there after a stern warning from Mormesk to never return. However, they want to turn Nezznar in for a bounty and believe he would be worth a lot more alive, so they rush to the exit of the cave and try to cast revivify on him - keeping in mind the cut-off time. This is where things get tricky... Nezznar's spirit has already left his body in the form of a specter, so what would the spell do? We determined three options: 1. The specter is destroyed and Nezznar is restored to life, which would no doubt anger Mormesk. 2. The specter is not destroyed, and Nezznar is restored to life... but he is a vegetable. This is due to the spell only reviving the physical body and not returning the spirit. 3. The spell fizzles out. [/QUOTE]

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