true resurrection

[RichGreen]

Hi,

If true resurrection doesn't require a body, can you use the spell to resurrect a comrade whose body you left behind (deliberately!)?

Cheers


Richard

 

[hammymchamham]

True Resurrection
Conjuration (Healing)
Level: Clr 9, Healing 9
Components: V, S, M, DF
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: Touch
Target: Dead creature touched
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None (see text)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)
The cleric restores life to a deceased creature. The cleric can raise creatures who have been dead up to 10 years per caster level. In addition, the subject?s soul must be free and willing to return. If the subject?s soul is not willing to return, the spell does not work; therefore, subjects who want to return receive no saving throw.
Upon completion of the spell, the creature is immediately restored to full hit points, vigor, and health, with no loss of level (or Constitution point) or prepared spells.
This spell can even bring back creatures whose bodies have been wholly destroyed, provided the character unambiguously identifies the deceased in some fashion (reciting the deceased?s time and place of birth or death is the most common method).
None of the dead creature?s equipment or possessions are affected in any way by this spell.
The character can revive someone killed by a death effect or someone who has been turned into an undead creature and then destroyed.
Constructs, elementals, outsiders, and undead creatures can?t be raised. The spell cannot bring back a creature who has died of old age.
Material Components: Worth at least 5,000 gp.

Bold part should answer your questoin.
Cheers mate

 

[dcollins]

Gee, that's an interesting point, actually. It might actually be more desirable (from the players' standpoint) to have a body totally destroyed, than merely dead in an inaccessible location, for the purposes of true resurrection. Seems like the implication is that villains would less want to burn or destroy a body utterly, and more want to keep a corpse around in a well defended place.

Not sure I like that, but then I've never been totally satisfied with the ease of rasining in 3rd Ed.

 

[Mahali]

If you're running it's a lot easier to grab the whole body so you're party member doesn't come back pissed that he's out all his equipment :-D

 

[dkilgo]

Yeah, the lack of his/her equipment might pose a problem.

 

[ZR]

so if you leave a body behind you specificly cant resurrect it as you cant touch it.

I hadnt noticed this before.......bad news for PC's.

Now rather than burning and destroyng the bodies of their enemies they will have to take them with them!!

 

[Hypersmurf]

Now, if you are forced to run and abandon a dead comrade, what about chopping off a finger and taking it with you?

Apart from the possibility of a Clone, the description of Resurrection says you can cast it on any part of the corpse, as long as it was part of the body at time of death...

-Hyp.

 

[hammymchamham]

Hyp: If one of my players wanted to do that, I'd let them. If they were next to the body, it would be a full round action that provokes an attack of oppurtunity.

 

[RichGreen]

Hi,

I asked the original question because this happened in my game on Monday night. Two PCs were in a trapped room - one was killed, the other took the dead guy's gear, left the body and escaped. Later, he met up with the other PCs and the cleric cast true resurrection.

The body is still presumably sitting in the dungeon.


Richard

 

[Hand of Vecna]

Good point -- if you cast True Resurrection on your dead comrade's severed thumb, what happens? If the thumb grows into a new body for your comrades soul, what happens to the body left behind? Does it crumble to dust? And if not, how freaked will the resurrected person be if they later find their (thumbless) corpse? Or does the corpse itself become fully healed (perhaps missing a thumb, perhaps not), but is now stuck where the body was originally abandoned (and possibly missing all it's gear)?