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  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    That’s an interesting take and one I never thought about before, but very rarely does that reluctance actually come up in play, established settings, or fiction unless it’s for a specific individual intrigue moment. Why do dead player characters come back so readily? Are adventurers just adverse to the afterlife? Also, there’s a weirder implication: does that mean bad people with some sort of damnation waiting for them are statistically far more likely to return?

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      8 months ago

      Why do dead player characters come back so readily

      Probably because they were in the middle of doing something and want to finish.

      Bg3 has a neat note about one of the npc characters resenting being resurrected. He was a follower of bhaal and enjoyed the afterlife that seemed like a damnation.

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        8 months ago

        I still don’t see many official materials through the decades I’ve played D&D that suggested that it was that rare for resurrection magic to actually fail that often by way of people not wanting to return.