Mythic Reincarnate


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Here's a mythic reincarnate I came up with for use in a campaign I'm GM'ing. Add the following to the end of the spell:

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Mythic: You may roll twice when selecting the target's new race, and choose which roll to use.

Augmented (6th): If you expend an additional 4 uses of mythic power, add all playable (0 hd) races to the list of possible races, subject to your GM's approval. You may choose the target's new race, gender, and age category. You may choose the details of the new body's form, such as hair and eye color, complexion, and so on. In addition, you may grant the target a +1 reincarnation bonus to one physical ability score. This bonus does not stack: subsequent reincarnations may affect a new physical ability score, but not the same one twice.

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I'd eliminate the stat bonus. we don't want to give folks THAT much incentive to kill themselves off.

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The mythic version is okay, but I'm not crazy about the augmented version because the table should be custom tailored by the GM anyway. Why not just let you choose the race provided it does not change your creature type?

On a tangent, I'm really baffled I haven't found anything that allows a worshiper of a deity to reincarnate into the form the deity favors. In other words, there's no way for a dwarven cleric of Torag to increase his chances of reincarnating into a dwarf. That makes no sense to me when gods have the power to influence or deny resurrection and that the deceased take a form favored by their deity in the afterlife.

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Cyrad wrote:

The mythic version is okay, but I'm not crazy about the augmented version because the table should be custom tailored by the GM anyway. Why not just let you choose the race provided it does not change your creature type?

On a tangent, I'm really baffled I haven't found anything that allows a worshiper of a deity to reincarnate into the form the deity favors. In other words, there's no way for a dwarven cleric of Torag to increase his chances of reincarnating into a dwarf. That makes no sense to me when gods have the power to influence or deny resurrection and that the deceased take a form favored by their deity in the afterlife.

That's because at the end, the deities want their worshipers with them in the afterlife. It's when they finally get point score by having the soul in their domain. There's no incentive for them to encourage reincarnation when said soul may wind up straying from the path as a result.


I went back and forth on the stat boost thing, but decided it added a good sense of "hey this is an epic spell now" to it. Feel free to disregard.

And I stuck the "subject to GM approval" in to account for GMs who don't want the players to have access to every race. EDIT: and it occurs to me that if the limitation is "you can't change your type", and my type is outsider (native) because I'm, say, a sylph, then I could reincarnate as a Janni (still a native outsider) and get a fly speed with perfect maneuverability, plus bunch of spell like abilities. So I think limiting it to 0-hd races make sense.

In my own campaign, it looks like this is primarily going to be used as a rite of passage -- the PC has just taken the Divine Source ability and started granting spells to followers, and the player wanted to reincarnate each new worshipper as a kind of initiation. Yeah, that'll get expensive, but the flavor is awesome.


I'd give the choice to the deceased rather than the caster in both instances, similar to the salve of the second chance's new moon effect.


I agree with eliminating the stat bonus. At the very least, make it an inherent bonus rather than a reincarnation bonus, so it doesn't stack with Wish/tomes, otherwise every high-level adventurer will want to get killed off so they can reincarnate.

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LazarX wrote:
Cyrad wrote:

The mythic version is okay, but I'm not crazy about the augmented version because the table should be custom tailored by the GM anyway. Why not just let you choose the race provided it does not change your creature type?

On a tangent, I'm really baffled I haven't found anything that allows a worshiper of a deity to reincarnate into the form the deity favors. In other words, there's no way for a dwarven cleric of Torag to increase his chances of reincarnating into a dwarf. That makes no sense to me when gods have the power to influence or deny resurrection and that the deceased take a form favored by their deity in the afterlife.

That's because at the end, the deities want their worshipers with them in the afterlife. It's when they finally get point score by having the soul in their domain. There's no incentive for them to encourage reincarnation when said soul may wind up straying from the path as a result.

That's not really how (most) gods work. If it did, any kind of resurrection would automatically fail for creatures worshipping deities. Assuming I'm a god with an agenda that desires souls in my domain, wouldn't it be in my best interests to allow my most powerful clergy to continue my work on the Material Plane to sheppard more followers? Sure, it delays their judgment for a few more decades, but who cares? I'm a god -- a few decades is meaningless to me. If I give them my blessing of a new life, that will only encourage them to continue their faith in me and spread word of my miracles. If I bar them from reincarnating or resurrecting when they really desire it, that might actually upset them and their loved ones enough to not worship me anymore. So, unless I'm a greedy daemon that just wants to eat their soul or my gospel explicitly forbids reincarnation, there's not really any good reason for me to bar a reincarnation.

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I could have sworn there was an old Faerun 6th level spell called "Greater Reincarnate" that let you roll twice on the table and pick which one you wanted.

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