The description of the revenant says "A murderer who becomes undead does not trigger a revenant's destruction." So Iesha would normally not pursue Aldern, since he became undead.
Did you have any Problems with players recognizing this? Seems like a minor inaccuracy, but I just wondered.
Or am I getting it wrong?
Just handwave it. Because Aldern has retained his former identity since becoming undead, he could still count as "alive." Most undead are created from the body of the dead person but aren't really the same person... but Aldern is, at least sort of.
I will for sure handle it by-the-book. It's too good and I don't want to reduce Iesha to just another combat Encounter.
I just wondered if this had come up before.
Lanassa, I agree with you. Peet's hand-waved interpretation is, in fact, the RAW for revenants. I think that sentence is in there mostly for liches and (depending on interpretation) vampires that retain their sense of self, rather than skeletons and zombies (or even lesser incorporeal undead). Aldern certainly qualifies by those criteria, though.
There's some weirdness in the dormant period that tends to exist between life and undeath, but presumably the revenant's hate senses the remaining essence.
The description of the revenant says "A murderer who becomes undead does not trigger a revenant's destruction." So Iesha would normally not pursue Aldern, since he became undead.
Did you have any Problems with players recognizing this? Seems like a minor inaccuracy, but I just wondered.
Or am I getting it wrong?
Don't get too bookbound when comes to the things the players face - especially a group like this one that appears to have encyclopedic knowledge of everything that has stats. My players routinely come across traditional creatures with non-traditional toughness or abilities, encounter spells none of them have ever read about being used both for and against them and so on... the day the game stops becoming magical, the day the player pulls his head out of his character to insist 'but that's not what the Bestiary says' is the day to go back to playing video games.
I always thought it meant "even if the murderer becomes undead, the revenant is not slain". So, nothing to do with the revenant's hate.
Besides, the wording is not "as long as the murderer is alive" but "as long as the murderer exists"Am I missing something?
Ah, yes, I got this wrong. This totally makes sense and in this case my question is obsolete.
Thanks to all.