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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Psion" data-source="post: 2710854" data-attributes="member: 959">One topic that has never been fully explored are the three Rs of gaming; Raised, Resurrected and Reincarnated. And I would add an additional one, Redeemed.Raised: What can go wrong and what can go right? What if you save someone from Hell like in Hellraiser? What if you save someone from Heaven like in Buffy TVS? How do you limit PCs and especially NPCs from being raised? Can something as simple as an assassin cutting off a finger of the corpse stop a Raise Dead?Requiring a cleric casting the spell be of the same deity the PC followed is one way, but what if you could only be raised by a cleric whose domains covered how your PC died?Drowned in the Ocean, you need Poseidon, but in war, then a cleric of Ares is needed.Resurrected: This is more powerful, so that makes it rarer, but again what can go wrong and what can go right? Only a single part of the body is needed, but what happens to the rest of the body if successful? What if the spell is cast on multiple parts? I remember someone posting once about changing this spell into a Summoning spell that summons an arbiter of Death, whom you must bribe, duel or gamble to gain the soul of the departed.Reincarnated: Exactly how does it work? Are you reborn in your body like Dr Who or do you snatch someone else body, alive or recently dead? Are their ways to influence your new form or tap into your previous incarnations? And then there is the Inuyasha question of what happens when you try to resurrect someone who has already been reincarnated? One short story I read once put Reincarnation under the domain of the Lord of Dreams, a very interesting concept.Redeemed: There are many things in the game that can transform your PC; Lycanthropy, Undeath, or even becoming an Outsider. All of these are handled by gaining a Template and so being Redeemed is undoing a template and regaining your original form. Since Templates are still new, undoing them is an unexplored concept.And there are other ways of cheating death; Psionic Mind Swap, Magic Jar into a magic item and simple CPR, by way of a Heal check.As to the pdf, keep the EnCritters comming</blockquote>

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