Editing Yagura:SRD:Casting Spells (section)

=====Bringing Back the Dead=====

Several spells have the power to restore slain characters to life.

When a living creature dies, its soul departs its body, and what happens to it next is hotly debated among those who care about such things. Bringing someone back from the [[Yagura:SRD:Dead|dead]] means retrieving his or her soul and returning it to his or her body.

======Experience Debt======

Any creature brought back to life usually suffers experience debt. This replaces all references to the loss of levels. The amount of debt accrued is equal to half of the amount of XP required to get from the previous level to the current level. Level 1 characters do not gain experience debt.

Experience debt can be paid for by the character who has the experience debt, or by any willing character not being affected by any magical effect, as long as the XP spent to pay down the debt does not result in an XP total that is less than the minimum required to keep the current level.

The next level cannot be attained unless a character has no experience debt.

======Preventing Revivification======

Enemies can take steps to make it more difficult for a character to be returned from the dead. Keeping the body prevents others from using ''raise dead'' or ''resurrection ''to restore the slain character to life. Casting ''trap the soul ''prevents any sort of revivification unless the soul is first released.

======Revivification against One's Will======

A soul cannot be returned to life if it does not wish to be. A soul knows the name and motivations of the character attempting to revive it and may refuse to return on that basis.