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Hi,
I’m wondering what is supposed to happen when you cast mind swap and one of the bodies dies.
I’ve always interpreted the spell as perfectly symmetrical (per the "As if you each has cast possession on the other"). I think this mean that the spells ends whenever one of the bodies die and that the original soul it hosted is dead.
However, I guess it could also mean that temporarily the two souls share the same host, neither being dead (until the end of the spell). Who is in control then ?
Btw, this is highly relevant to the psychic bloodline capstone (true thought form), which performs mind swap when you die. I wonder why they used this spell and not possession directly, though. Or maybe they meant major mind swap, which would be more in line to the description but suffers from the target requirement (unless it doesn’t apply).
Any thoughts? I’m interested in RAI as well as RAW.
Mind swap is not possession. It is similar, but it acts as though both creatures had cast possession on each other simultaneously. A host body dying would end that possession but not the other one, leaving the soul originating from the dead body still in control of the living body of the other creature.
In the case of the psychic bloodline capstone, a successful mindswap would end up leaving both souls in the killer's body, with the sorcerer in control. . . for one hour per level, after which the spell ends and the sorcerer is dead. Not exactly lichdom, but twenty hours ought to be long enough to find where you stashed that limited wish scroll and get yourself out of this mess.