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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 1875102" data-attributes="member: 3424">I would interpret the above rules interactions in the following manner:1. When you use true resurrection on a functioning undead creature, you turn it back into the living creature that it was before it became undead (provided the subject's soul is willing to return, of course).2. You can even use true resurrection on an undead creature that has been destroyed. This settles the question of whether turning a person into an undead creature and then destroying it prevents true resurrection. The unambiguous answer is no. To get all rules-lawyery about it, this statement is part of a sentence which expands the power of the spell (it can revive someone killed by a death effect, something that raise dead is not able to do) and follows on from the previous clause instead of being set in contrast (e.g. by the use of &quot;but&quot; or &quot;however&quot;). As such, it should also be interpreted as an expansion of the spell's power (i.e. you can resurrect an undead creature after it has been destroyed) instead of a limitation (i.e. you can only resurrect an undead creature after it has been destroyed).3. The spell cannot resurrect undead creatures because it turns them back into the living creatures they once were. You cannot cast this spell on a destroyed vampire with the intent of reviving it as a vampire. If the spell works, the subject always becomes a living creature, not an undead creature.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 1875102, member: 3424"] I would interpret the above rules interactions in the following manner: 1. When you use [I]true resurrection[/I] on a functioning undead creature, you turn it back into the living creature that it was before it became undead (provided the subject's soul is willing to return, of course). 2. You can even use [I]true resurrection[/I] on an undead creature that has been destroyed. This settles the question of whether turning a person into an undead creature and then destroying it prevents [I]true resurrection[/I]. The unambiguous answer is no. To get all rules-lawyery about it, this statement is part of a sentence which expands the power of the spell (it can revive someone killed by a death effect, something that [I]raise dead[/I] is not able to do) and follows on from the previous clause instead of being set in contrast (e.g. by the use of "but" or "however"). As such, it should also be interpreted as an expansion of the spell's power (i.e. you can resurrect an undead creature after it has been destroyed) instead of a limitation (i.e. you can [B][U]only[/U][/B] resurrect an undead creature after it has been destroyed). 3. The spell cannot resurrect undead creatures because it turns them back into the living creatures they once were. You cannot cast this spell on a destroyed vampire with the intent of reviving it as a vampire. If the spell works, the subject always becomes a living creature, not an undead creature. [/QUOTE]

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