Can you resurrect yourself?


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A recent encounter brought me to think about this question. If you are a sufficiently powerful divine spellcaster, and you somehow become a type of undead that lets you keep your class levels, say, for example, a ghost, could you successfully cast resurrection on yourself?

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Yes, if you became undead that kept your class levels, strictly speaking you could.


Sure, but you'd have to destroy yourself first. You cannot, as a rule, cast resurrection on a non-destroyed undead. I suppose you could use the contingent spell metamagic feat for some wacky hijinks.

In the case of a ghost, you'd also need some bit of your corpse--resurrection requires at least a little bit of remains to work with, even if it's the dust left over from disintegrate.


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Ah right, it only works on an undead if they have been destroyed. That certainly makes it more difficult.

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