Aroden's spell banes work well against those. Just aroden spell bane: disjunction, anti magic field, dispel magic and dispel magic greater. Oh and don't forget wall of suppression.
I do love that the premiere "There is no way you can mess with me" spell comes from the dead guy. This in no way changes the in-game value, but I love the irony of it.
I think the best way to balance this RAW is have the Akashic Form fully effect the host body and mind. "You" is the body you inhabit, and when the host is killed that body's mind gets to decide how/where to reform. The possession, as normal, ends at death.
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Hey everyone, sorry to bring up my old thread. But I had completely missed, somehow, that people had actually replied to it, and so enthusiastically! Thanks!
There are a few things that I'd like to reply to.
Yes Akashic Form is range personal and target you, that doesn't mean it works on the possessed body. It means Akashic Form fails.
Of all the nay-sayers, I'd say this is the fairest. It's a little arbitrary, though.
And again, remember possession says your body vanishes, which implies that your body exists somewhere, not that the body your possessing is your physical body.
You have a very interesting interpretation of what "vanishing". I think you might be mistaking it with its synonyms.
vanishvanish/Submit
verb
1.
disappear suddenly and completely.
"Moira vanished without trace"
synonyms: disappear, vanish into thin air, be lost to sight/view, be/become invisible, evaporate, dissipate, disperse, fade, fade away, melt away, evanesce, recede from view, withdraw, depart, leave, go away
"she caught Archie trying to vanish upstairs"
2.
MATHEMATICS
become zero.
Both "suddenly and completely" and "become zero" are pretty clear to me. At that point in time, your original/previous body does not exist.
At a later point in time, when greater possession ends, your original/previous body reappears (perhaps taken from the akashic record, who knows?), and once again is 'your body'.
In the meantime, 'your body' is the body you're possessing. You use it, control it, own it, it's yours.
And I will also reiterate that, lore-wise, it doesn't make any sense for the spell to let you copy a possessed body. The Akashic Record is a supernaturally perfect document. You can't fool it by putting your soul into someone else's body. That's like saying you own your neighbor's house because you broke into it one night and slept on his couch.
You seem to have the predisposition that "supernaturally perfect" should mean "supernaturally infused with a sense of rightness and fairness". The very fact that it's perfect means that you store your body exactly as it is at that moment in time. Like a photograph stores an image. Just like images on photographs can be, this body record can be a trick, but it's stored nonetheless.
When the body is restored, it is restored from record. The akashic record of the past perfectly recalls your soul's form, hitpoints, and physical prowess from that moment and reassigns it to your soul as per magical request.
Now... Some Gods and certainly some axiomites might get very angry at you for having abused and tricked a lawful plane in such a blatant matter, but that is of a later matter. Asmodeus would applaud and make you his proxy.
Lastly there was the interpretation of being formed as a separate soul from the soulless body...
I do get that one and it's scary. But, I feel it should be more thought through.
Firstly, this would mean that the Akashic record hasn't been recording right. The plane messed up which body was owned by the soul. But since, as per greater possession, there are two souls in the body, I can get that far.
However, you're now a floating soul. That does not necessarily mean you're dead. You're just incorporeal. Which isn't all bad, if you're a psychic...
Thoughts?