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Hi Mike and Mark, I know that you can spend prestige points to have your body recovered if you are killed while on a mission.
What I was wondering how this works. Does the society have a 911 team that teleports in picks up the body of the recently slain and teleports back to the nearest lodge and resurrects or raises the recently slain member that has paid for the service.
I have a Hospitaler Paladin that has Ultimate Mercy that would be perfect for such a team. I could see the society have teams like this standing by in major lodges or maybe just the grand lodge and when the newly alain distress band is activated t-porting in and picking up the body and then t-porting out.
Venture-Captain, California—Sacramento
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There are many missions that basically involve "So and so has not reported in. go find out what happened. and then finish the mission they failed."
At the very high levels, this sometimes involves a group teleport to where they were last found, but rarely do you know where they are, and when you do know where they are, it is because they are somewhere where teleporting in, grabbing the body, and teleporting out would cause an international incident.
Also, since dead pathfinders usually means someone left something undone, you are usually required to stick around and clean up their mess before bringing them back.
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I have been on many missions where you are sent to find out what happened to a pathfinder, but fewer where you're actually tasked with bringing the body back. And, now that I think of it, on most of the missions where we did find a body, nobody volunteered to carry it back. I'll have to remember to start doing that.
The body recovery for prestige is done by the faction, so my guess would be it varies by faction. Silver Crusade or Liberty's Edge might go in swords swinging, depending on the situation. Exchange might hire a retrieval group or negotiate with your captors (if you aren't dead). Grand Lodge might send a group of Pathfinders (Because, let's face it, Aram Zey can't be bothered to use magic to do it unless he absolutely has to). Dark Archive might use a spell or ritual from one of their books (You don't want to know what was involved when they were Cheliax).
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This looks like a good thread to mention my "Return to Bonekeep" idea.
Body recovery missions are pretty established - it would be awesome if we came up with a PFS scenario where YOU, the team, get to do a body recovery mission in one of the most dangerous places in the game - Bonekeep I.
I'm imagining it to be slightly random adventure (like The Confirmation or something), in that the GM will roll to determine the location(s) of the fallen PFS members. And those awful things in Bonekeep? Well, this is a few hours after the (failed) assault - so they may even have reinforcements.
Obviously this idea needs fleshed out but I think it'd be fun :)
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Venture-Captain, California—Sacramento
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I have been on many missions where you are sent to find out what happened to a pathfinder, but fewer where you're actually tasked with bringing the body back. And, now that I think of it, on most of the missions where we did find a body, nobody volunteered to carry it back. I'll have to remember to start doing that.
The body recovery for prestige is done by the faction, so my guess would be it varies by faction. Silver Crusade or Liberty's Edge might go in swords swinging, depending on the situation. Exchange might hire a retrieval group or negotiate with your captors (if you aren't dead). Grand Lodge might send a group of Pathfinders (Because, let's face it, Aram Zey can't be bothered to use magic to do it unless he absolutely has to). Dark Archive might use a spell or ritual from one of their books (You don't want to know what was involved when they were Cheliax).
Bring them back, Some of the newer scenarios if you bring them back (alive?) you get a free body recovery for yourself.
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That was the most recent one I was thinking of, and
