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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7353419" data-attributes="member: 58197">Hmm. That's an interesting question. Raise dead has language specifying that the creature's soul must be free to return and willing. Revivify has no such constraint. However, my guess is they didn't bother with the constraint because they figured a creature that died within the last minute hasn't yet had time to transition to any kind of afterlife. In this case, the specter is created immediately, so that assumption is invalid.The strictest reading of RAW would say that the guy is restored to life, and nothing happens to the specter. That doesn't make much sense, though. So you're going to have to bend some part of the RAW; either the specter is destroyed, or the spell fails in some way. I would go with the second option.Personally, I would say that the body is revived, but the soul is not available and something... else... takes its place. However, if you prefer not to mess with that, you can just have the spell fail outright. That would be the simplest and most logical ruling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7353419, member: 58197"] Hmm. That's an interesting question. [I]Raise dead[/I] has language specifying that the creature's soul must be free to return and willing. [I]Revivify[/I] has no such constraint. However, my guess is they didn't bother with the constraint because they figured a creature that died within the last minute hasn't yet had time to transition to any kind of afterlife. In this case, the specter is created immediately, so that assumption is invalid. The strictest reading of RAW would say that the guy is restored to life, and nothing happens to the specter. That doesn't make much sense, though. So you're going to have to bend some part of the RAW; either the specter is destroyed, or the spell fails in some way. I would go with the second option. Personally, I would say that the body is revived, but the soul is not available and something... else... takes its place. However, if you prefer not to mess with that, you can just have the spell fail outright. That would be the simplest and most logical ruling. [/QUOTE]

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