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We recently had Samsaran die in our Kingmaker game. While discussing if we should resurrect him, we couldn't if we could.
In the prd is says:
Whenever a samsaran dies, it reincarnates anew as a young samsaran to live a new life.
Does that mean that if we tried to use say Raise Dead on him that it wouldn't work because he's already alive in a different body?
and to make this even weirder, what would happen if we tried to cast Reincarnate on him?
your thoughts?
Their description doesn't have any mechanical implications, so RAW-wise nothing stops them from being resurrected or even reincarnated (which RAW would make him into a new race, as normal).
The Samsaran reincarnation is flavor, folliwing traditional buddhist and hinduist reincarnation cycles. Born into a new infant, getting a whole new life, however with the add-on that they are able to remember parts of their former lives.
This becomes a huge drawback, should we apply it directly into the game, as no samsaran can return from death, and if they want to keep their PC, they have to play an infant.
However, as a GM, I would be inclined to use the race flavor, if a reincarnate spell is cast upon them. Thus having them automatically become samsaran again.
In case it happened multiple times, I would probably change my stance on this, adding more severe changes to the reincarnatee.
The most simple and intuitive approach to this to me is simply considering that maybe there is a "wait" from the moment a samsaran dies to the moment he is reincarnated. Maybe a year, maybe some month, maybe a millenia.
Probably, in accordance with many of the famose stories about important people reincarnating centuries down the lane, i'd say that the higher the level the samsaran was when he died, the more time it passes before he reincarnates. This should give adventurers the option of being ressed before becaming part of the cycle again.
