Losing bonded items enchantments on death

[demur]

As written does the wizard loses all enchantments to his bonded item when he dies?

Also is this what was intended?

seems rather cruel, making it useless to enchant the bonded item at higher levels.

"If a bonded object's owner dies, or the item is replaced, the object reverts to being an ordinary masterwork item of the appropriate type."

[HaraldKlak]

demur wrote:

As written does the wizard loses all enchantments to his bonded item when he dies?

Also is this what was intended?

seems rather cruel, making it useless to enchant the bonded item at higher levels.

"If a bonded object's owner dies, or the item is replaced, the object reverts to being an ordinary masterwork item of the appropriate type."

It say no if he is resurrected. It could be just another safeguard to make sure that others cannot use the thing.

Reading RAW it would seem to stop working, but I wouldn't care about that.

[azhrei_fje]

Death is rather amorphous in a game where it's not permanent. ;)

I would read that as "permanently dies" since that's likely what was intended.

[KaeYoss]

I think the spirit of that rule is that the item is supposed work for its owner and nobody else. So I say if the guy comes back, his magic ring/sword/whatever comes back.

[Marc Radle]

The question still seems worth clicking the FAQ button ...

[azhrei_fje]

(Oh sure, 5 clicks for the FAQ but only 4 clicks for my stealth/assassin/full attack/flat-footed/blind-fight question...)

[Pathos]

... 6

:oP

[azhrei_fje]

Doh!

(This seems so clearly obvious to me but it's now at 9 FAQ votes!? I think others are doing this just to spite me. ;-) Oh well. )

[demur]

Ok, thanks for the answers.

My DM will probably say that the enchantments come back with me, but an official clarification would indeed be nice.