Reincarnation and Young characters


Rules Questions


At our game table. I have a young human race character (13 years old). And died. The party brought her back to life with the reincarnation spell, and she returned as human. my question is. Return to the age of a young adult (between 20 and 30 years), according to the rules of the spell? o Does he keep the same age as he was when she died?


Going off the writing, young adult it is.

There's a lot about that spell that requires GM adjudication, and it's not uncommon to house-rule its behavior to something more sensible.


You got 'Freaky Friday'ed. Atleast your not dead or a troglodyte. You gained 2+ years of physical development overnight, RP it.

Adulthood is 15 years for humans in pathfinder. You missed 1 birthday.


PERSONALLY, I'd let him stay 13. But that's only because it's more of a penalty to stay 13, raw numbers wise. Even if he's a dex build, and the strength is negated, he's still at a -2 con from his

The FUN question I've got for you is... Is he an Oracle with the Child curse? Because if so, he comes back at 13 (or the equivalent there of), period. For eternity.


Reincarnation is supposed to be random... Sounds super lucky to be human again..

Roll for age.. 15+d6 or whatever the class dictates the age should be.


Human is the most likely outcome on the CRB chart, FWIW.


Zarius wrote:

PERSONALLY, I'd let him stay 13. But that's only because it's more of a penalty to stay 13, raw numbers wise. Even if he's a dex build, and the strength is negated, he's still at a -2 con from his

The FUN question I've got for you is... Is he an Oracle with the Child curse? Because if so, he comes back at 13 (or the equivalent there of), period. For eternity.

Nop. She is a Feral child (Druid arqueotype), multiclass with Ranger.


*Thelith wrote:

Reincarnation is supposed to be random... Sounds super lucky to be human again..

Roll for age.. 15+d6 or whatever the class dictates the age should be.

Well. In our game table, we usually roll 3 times the die for the reincarnation table and then we roll a die of 3 and the number that falls is the one selected.

In my case the selection was halfling, elf and human.


Drowscorrow wrote:
Well. In our game table, we usually roll 3 times the die for the reincarnation table and then we roll a die of 3 and the number that falls is the one selected.

...This is mathematically identical to just rolling once on the table.


But potentially more amusing because people have a smaller number of choices to consider and make jokes about?


Like I said, coming back with a -2 str, -2 con, and +2 dex is still mathematically worse than being made an adult, even if you ARE a pure dex build. I'd let it fly, his class archetype actually allows for it.


Zarius wrote:
Like I said, coming back with a -2 str, -2 con, and +2 dex is still mathematically worse than being made an adult, even if you ARE a pure dex build. I'd let it fly, his class archetype actually allows for it.

as a teacher friend would say:

both are correct. one is inferential statistics and the other differential. likewise the type of probability applied.

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