Body Retrieval if Undead?


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Scarab Sages

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Does the prestige cost (5PP) to "Have your body recovered by a rescue team" include if that body has become undead and needs to be killed?

5/5 RPG Superstar 2014 Top 32

Yes the recovery team would kill your undead character as part of the recovery, as well as retrieve all of your gear.

Just remember that Raise Dead does not work on those that have been transformed into undead. You would need to spring for a resurrection spell.

Scarab Sages

I have enough gold for a resurrection spell.

If someone with some official credentials could answer this, even if just to say, yes, what Brian said, that would be appreciated.

Grand Lodge 4/5 Global Organized Play Coordinator

Brian is correct.

Silver Crusade 3/5

A similar question came up last night: can body recovery be used if your character is still alive, but hopelessly trapped?

4/5

I've always imagined the body recovery as an extraction squad of seekers coming in and asking whatever is holding the pathfinder body if they feel lucky today…

As for hopelessly trapped, many scenarios explicitly give conditions as to what happens when you end up trapped on another plane of existence. Many of those require a price comparable to raise dead. For me it would really depend on the conditions of being trapped, and who/what is trapping you. Being trapped on another plane is probably worse than being held by some Aspis agents, or other things. This would really come up to GM discretion as to what happens.

The Exchange 3/5

The fox knows this story but I had my Stonelord paladin hopelessly trapped after

:
a certain dwarven sky citadel collapsed in season 4
but it was determined similar to a cave in, he had his ring of sustenance and had plenty of gear needed to stay alive that he likely survived but needed a body recovery to come dig him out.

A certain season 2 Scenario

:
you only die twice
has specific rules if left behind in
:
Geb, the land of the dead.

all these spoilers makes me miss the gm thread down south

Grand Lodge 4/5

Codanous wrote:
A certain season 2 Scenario ** spoiler omitted ** has specific rules if left behind in ** spoiler omitted **

A season 0 scenario has a recovery option if you're

Spoiler:
lost in the Ethereal Plane.

Silver Crusade 3/5

Never mind. Mike Brock's post—HERE—suggests that you CAN use "body recovery" to free a living PC from capture or imprisonment.

Though, I agree that being trapped on another plane would probably make this more difficult for the rescuers, there aren't limitations given in the guide for body recovery. If it costs 5 prestige to recover a dead body from another plane, I would be comfortable as a GM letting PCs be rescued from another plane for 5 prestige as well. Of course, if a particular scenario has different prestige costs listed then we should use those.

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