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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9254893" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Edition-agnostic question here, and answers based on different editions might be of interest.</p><p></p><p>First, the background:</p><p></p><p>Some years ago in my current campaign one of the PCs - a Human Fighter - suffered a mishap where pulling a card from a modified Deck of Many Things stripped away his soul but otherwise left him hale and hearty. He ran for a few in-game years like this (and, somewhat incredibly for both the player and the game, stayed alive the whole time) while slowly coming to realize his odd condition, then eventually - with some very high-powered help - he got a soul stuffed into him that nobody else was using (it was extracted from the soul gem found in Ghost Tower of Inverness).</p><p></p><p>The ramifications of this were both good and bad. The good: he became completely invisible to most undead, who see only the soul or spirit of the living. He also became immune to a few (quite rare) effects that specifically target the spirit. The bad: if he died he was done. No revival in any manner, no speak with dead, nothing.</p><p></p><p>And so, my question to you all:</p><p></p><p>Would you allow a PC to lose its soul or spirit like this and yet still remain alive and playable?</p><p></p><p>If no, why?</p><p></p><p>If yes, what would you have as the ramifications of having no soul?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9254893, member: 29398"] Edition-agnostic question here, and answers based on different editions might be of interest. First, the background: Some years ago in my current campaign one of the PCs - a Human Fighter - suffered a mishap where pulling a card from a modified Deck of Many Things stripped away his soul but otherwise left him hale and hearty. He ran for a few in-game years like this (and, somewhat incredibly for both the player and the game, stayed alive the whole time) while slowly coming to realize his odd condition, then eventually - with some very high-powered help - he got a soul stuffed into him that nobody else was using (it was extracted from the soul gem found in Ghost Tower of Inverness). The ramifications of this were both good and bad. The good: he became completely invisible to most undead, who see only the soul or spirit of the living. He also became immune to a few (quite rare) effects that specifically target the spirit. The bad: if he died he was done. No revival in any manner, no speak with dead, nothing. And so, my question to you all: Would you allow a PC to lose its soul or spirit like this and yet still remain alive and playable? If no, why? If yes, what would you have as the ramifications of having no soul? [/QUOTE]
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