Disclaimer: this is purposefully obtuse.

Other effects in the game which explicitly state they kill you:

Shadows, succubi, massive damage, death saving throws, beholder death ray (notably not even their disintegration ray kills you), power word kill, vampires, mind flayers, night hags, drow inquisitors.

Clearly, if they intended for disintegration to kill you, they’d have said so. Since specific overrides general, and there is no general rule that disintegrated creatures are dead, I rest my case. QED.

  • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
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    Where does it say that, RAW? I’m using your own logic against you. You’ll have to come up with a better response than that.

    Edit: to clarify, where does it say RAW that you get to continue playing when polymorphed into a non-playable character?

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      The target’s game statistics, including mental ability scores, are replaced by the statistics of the new form. It retains its alignment and personality.

      OP could’ve just repeated “spells do what they say they do.” It doesn’t say you lose control of your character in the new form, all it says about the new form and how that affects the character is…well, that line(plus a few other things about the gear they were wearing and whatnot).