Now if you cut them in half and one half falls far far away from the other half. *Missing parts* doesn't include the leg that you're holding against the stump, or the other half you've pressed back together. Whole means all the parts must be present, not intact and connected. If I cut him in half (like Darth Maul in the Star Wars prequel) he will not be able to raised at all more powerful and more expensive magic would be required. If I cut off a creature's leg and he bleeds out in a few seconds, he will be raised successfully, but without a leg. So if I put the blade of my sword through a creature's eye socket and out the back of his skull, killing him instantly, he will be raised without injury. Otherwise, missing parts are still missing when the creature is brought back to life. I don't believe there are any real-world cases of bodies being "split in two down the long axis," but if you've got some sort of magical enhancement, that might well be possible.Īnd, of course, if he died from a rock fall, then he's probably been turned into a red paste.Īs the OP pointed out, there are some limitations in the text of the raise dead spell: While the spell closes mortal wounds and repairs lethal damage of most kinds, the body of the creature to be raised must be whole. A katana, on the other hand, or any other suitable slashing weapon, is perfectly capable of cutting a human body in half at a single blow (that was how weapons were tested, and archeologists have found examples of such bodies). So if you're using a bow-and-arrow, then he was shot with a single arrow and died, but didn't explode into salsa. There is no rules to support any particular interpretation.Īt my table, it would depend strongly on the weapon used, but in general, any killing blow would be just that, a single blow. This somewhat has a rules implication, because if you bisect him purely through hit point damage, that makes him just as difficult to raise from the dead as if you'd animated him as a ghoul. So, if a level 20 two-handed fighter/tier 10 champion with Maximized Critical uses devastating blow with a x4 weapon on a 1st-level commoner, what does that actually represent? Does the blade smash his heart into pieces and send him sprawling? Or does it go further? Can he be split in two down the long axis and fall apart in B-movie horror fashion? Does his upper body go flying 2d6x10 feet in a random direction away from the fighter? Does he fall apart into ludicrous gibs like in Quake III or UT 2004?
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