Our stalwart Fighter/Rogue bit the big one two sessions ago. Zombie ate his brains, so our only option was Reincarnate.
Player was happy with this choice and gamely rolled to determine what form his new body would take. He went from a nearly 7' Hu-mon male, to a rather short Elven female.
Our GM has determined that this new body was "prepared" for the PC, out of the nothingness of space and time. So basically, the PCs soul is ensconced in this shiny, new wrapper.
I am in no way unhappy with the GMs call here (not even my character), rather it was just not how I might have done it. I guess I just sort of thought that an elven girl died many hundreds of years ago, and was now brought back to life (albeit with a Hu-mon's soul inside.) After talking to the GM, I like his idea better.
My question is, how does your group do it?
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When Reincarnation is used by a Druid, I usually have the new body "appear" out of some nearby natural environment, such as rising from a river or lake (either gasping for air or silently walking), clawing its way from underground (good for evil druids), transformed from a tree hit by lightning during a storm and so on.
I guess it could work for clerics, substituting "generic nature" with the appropriate domains.
I imagine that the body is formed from mud or dirt or ash or water. Besides that, yeah, entirely new body from nowhere but the wheel of fate.
The magic of the spell creates an entirely new young adult body for the soul to inhabit from the natural elements at hand.
I imagine that the body is formed from mud or dirt or ash or water. Besides that, yeah, entirely new body from nowhere but the wheel of fate.
You're transmuting whatever is around into a random new body for the soul of the fallen. Whether that is mud or rock or air or whatever organic matter is handy (including the dead body) is up to the GM.
Since the spell takes 10 minutes to cast, I always imagined that whatever natural material is around the area forms into something like a cocoon around the dead body and breaks it down, then builds a new one from the "juices." I liked the one spell from 3.5 that lasted a week for that reason.
Since the spell takes 10 minutes to cast, I always imagined that whatever natural material is around the area forms into something like a cocoon around the dead body and breaks it down, then builds a new one from the "juices." I liked the one spell from 3.5 that lasted a week for that reason.
Ah, an "Invasion of the Bodysnatchers" themed reincarnation. :)
Well last time the spell was used when I was GMing it was in a homebrew. And it was done more as a ritual, body placed within a wicker man, the caster casting, groups of lesser druids chanting, villager dancing and chanting. The group horrified as they burned the wicker man. after the spell was complete and the fire died low the under druides pulled an ash covered form from the fire pit, the villagers danced and song as the newly reborn form was bathed in blessed water of the sacred brook and then he was wrapped in furrs and a wolf headdress and declared once more among the living.
Much merry making insured.
As a GM I think something like coming back from the dead should be remember able and not a fast cast spell with gold thrown at it ya just forget.