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From: cc100jr@gitpyr.UUCP (Joel M. Rives)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Question on resurrection
Message-ID: <1178@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 11:19:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 11:19:19 1985
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In article <2200040@uok.UUCP> whherron@uok.UUCP writes:
>
>This came up in a game over the weekend:
>
> During a campaign, one of our characters was killed.  A
>resurrection spell was cast, and worked...but the character
>had forgotten all of the spells that he had memorized prior
>to tthe campaign.
>
>We argued that since the character could remember all of the 
>events of today (up to his death), then he should also remember
>his spells.  The DM argued that a) this was a traumatic injury,
>and b) that spells are saved in a "different" kind of memory
>(emphasis is DM's).
>
>Is there any precedent for his decision (preferably in print
>somewhere)?  Should there be?
>
>Bill
>
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First of all, whether something is in print or not has little bearing upon
the matter - unless the GM (my preference) has specifically stated that they 
intend to go strictly by the official rule. Even if this is the case, I do
not believe that there is anything in "official" print concerning the matter
you are concerned about. 
In the campaigns that I have run (and many others in which I participate),
when a character dies and is subsequently Raised or Resurrected, there is
a period of recouperation which can last for days, weeks or even months -
depending upon how long the character has been dead and how close to failure
the Raise or Resurrection was. Also, the method of death must be taken into
consideration. A character that died from a disease will still have that 
disease and will - no doubt - die from it again if not cured. 
Another factor which served to complicate matters a bit was a decision - on
my part - that Resurrections could only be performmed in a consecrated temple
or shrine to the Cleric's deity.      
As for remembering spells, though the situation litterally never came up,
my ruling would be that from an AD&D perspective (i.e. spells are kept in
conscious memory as a specially force or power which upon casting is erased
or expended - thus not normal memory), all MU spells would be gone from the 
characters memory - dissipated as it where into the astral plane along with
the character's soul.

				       the never-present whisper spirit


Joel Rives
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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