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<blockquote data-quote="Lilitu" data-source="post: 5527564" data-attributes="member: 6668327">I was reading through my copy of Open Grave when I came across a line in there that mentioned PC's being turned temporarily into undead.&nbsp; Now there was no further expansion on the concept beyond that one line however it did get me to start reconsidering an idea that I was previously on the verge of discarding.&nbsp; See, I'm a DM for a weekly group with my friends and the cleric of the group has a personality that doesn't mesh too well with the others.(it's a very naive/optimistic type of character)&nbsp; As such he wants his character to go through an existential crisis of some kind that will alter his personality somewhat and the god he follows into something that will mesh with the group better and he wants me to work this into the campaign we have(which I am happy to do).&nbsp; We have an undead heavy campaign so one of the ideas I had was to have his character captured by the necromantic cult they are dealing with and they turn him into an undead cleric.&nbsp; Then they let him lose on his former allies.A couple of other points I thought about with this as well:&nbsp; Shortly before this happened I would have an NPC cleric join up with them so that they could still have a healer on hand once he's gone and so that there could be someone around with a raise dead spell who could bring him back.I would give him a template for a ghost PC he could play after his body is turned undead so he can still fight along side his allies and guide them while I control the new undead.I had originally thought of discarding it because I thought it might be too far or too much or that it would just upset everyone, but that line had me reconsider the idea.&nbsp; So I wanted to ask what people here thought of it and ask if anyone has any advice on how it could be implemented to the greatest affect.&nbsp; Or if you have any thoughts on the general idea of turning 1 or more PC's undead temporarily I'd love to hear those as well.Thanks</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lilitu, post: 5527564, member: 6668327"] I was reading through my copy of Open Grave when I came across a line in there that mentioned PC's being turned temporarily into undead. Now there was no further expansion on the concept beyond that one line however it did get me to start reconsidering an idea that I was previously on the verge of discarding. See, I'm a DM for a weekly group with my friends and the cleric of the group has a personality that doesn't mesh too well with the others.(it's a very naive/optimistic type of character) As such he wants his character to go through an existential crisis of some kind that will alter his personality somewhat and the god he follows into something that will mesh with the group better and he wants me to work this into the campaign we have(which I am happy to do). We have an undead heavy campaign so one of the ideas I had was to have his character captured by the necromantic cult they are dealing with and they turn him into an undead cleric. Then they let him lose on his former allies. A couple of other points I thought about with this as well: Shortly before this happened I would have an NPC cleric join up with them so that they could still have a healer on hand once he's gone and so that there could be someone around with a raise dead spell who could bring him back. I would give him a template for a ghost PC he could play after his body is turned undead so he can still fight along side his allies and guide them while I control the new undead. I had originally thought of discarding it because I thought it might be too far or too much or that it would just upset everyone, but that line had me reconsider the idea. So I wanted to ask what people here thought of it and ask if anyone has any advice on how it could be implemented to the greatest affect. Or if you have any thoughts on the general idea of turning 1 or more PC's undead temporarily I'd love to hear those as well. Thanks [/QUOTE]

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