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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vegepygmy" data-source="post: 6183509" data-attributes="member: 40109">The rules themselves seem to be confused on this issue. The undead type description does indeed say that resurrection and true resurrection can affect undead creatures and that those spells turn undead creatures back into the living creatures they were.But according to the Core Rulebook, those spells can be cast on someone who has been turned into an undead creature and then destroyed. Additionally, an (undestroyed) undead creature is (technically) not a valid Target of either resurrection or true resurrection, both of which refer back to raise dead and its Target: "dead creature touched."It is possible to reconcile the conflict by interpreting the undead type description as implicitly saying: "(Unlike raise dead and reincarnate) resurrection and true resurrection can affect undead creatures (that have been destroyed). These spells turn undead creatures (that have been destroyed) back into the living creatures they were before becoming undead."The conflict cannot be reconciled the other way around without deleting explicit text ("and then destroyed") from the spell descriptions (and disregarding the Target line).</blockquote>