Post by dmsam on Jun 3, 2016 1:09:03 GMT
After reviewing some of the clerical/healing spells vs the raise dead spells, I noticed that regrowth or reattachment of a limb requires regenerate, a 7th level spell, making it more difficult to RAISE THE DEAD THAN TO REATTACH A LIMB. WHAT?
My question to the DM hive-mind is this: Do you allow for reattachment of severed body-parts with lesser heal spells or raise dead (decapitation, etc)? Even in real life, a cleanly severed limb (barring extensive crush injuries) is way more likely to be reattached than a person 10 days dead being resurrected.
Raise Dead (excerpt): This spell closes all mortal wounds, but it doesn’t restore missing body parts. If the creature is lacking body parts or organs integral for its survival—its head, for instance—the spell automatically fails.
Say a humanoid creature was decapitated less than 10 days ago, and both the head and the body are available during raise dead (so it's not "missing" per wording of the spell), would you rule that the spell reattaches the severed head - and by extension, other severed body parts?
My question to the DM hive-mind is this: Do you allow for reattachment of severed body-parts with lesser heal spells or raise dead (decapitation, etc)? Even in real life, a cleanly severed limb (barring extensive crush injuries) is way more likely to be reattached than a person 10 days dead being resurrected.
Raise Dead (excerpt): This spell closes all mortal wounds, but it doesn’t restore missing body parts. If the creature is lacking body parts or organs integral for its survival—its head, for instance—the spell automatically fails.
Say a humanoid creature was decapitated less than 10 days ago, and both the head and the body are available during raise dead (so it's not "missing" per wording of the spell), would you rule that the spell reattaches the severed head - and by extension, other severed body parts?
