Question about Astarion

[laelli]

I played BG-1, BG2, NWN1-2, but i am not a dnd rules expert, so i gonna ask probably a very stupid question: should ressurection work on Astarion at all? He is a vampire spawn after all. That means he is undead, right? So spell should at least work differently, imho.
(Sorry for my bad english, it's not my native language)

[R3sistance]

As far as I am aware, there is no specific rule in the ruleset that'd disallow resurrecting a vampire. The Raise Dead spell does have such a limitation but Revivify and True Resurrection do not.

The fact that Raise Dead specifically disallows raising an undead while other spells like Revivify do not, would suggest that those other spells can raise undead creatures.

EDIT: and just to clarify, when I say it works on undead, while they are still "undead" it would not work. If you killed them as undead and then resurrected them, these spells would most likely resurrect them to life as undead still. So this probably isn't a make shift vampirism cure.

The one spell that could most likely cure "vampirism" is with the 5th level Druid spell reincarnate, since you place the soul of a dead person into an entirely new body but this also shifts their race to a random race. A wish spell could also do this by using the wish spell to cast reincarnate. The other spells do not describe the scenario well enough but all resurrection spells do fall under the Necromancy School, as do spells that create undead.

[AcePost99]

Originally posted by laelli:

should ressurection work on Astarion at all?

No.

There are ways to restore undead in D&D, but the resurrection spell is not one of them.

[laelli]

Originally posted by R3sistance:

As far as I am aware, there is no specific rule in the ruleset that'd disallow resurrecting a vampire.

Originally posted by AcePost99:

No.

There are ways to restore undead in D&D, but the resurrection spell is not one of them.

And now i'm even more confused :-)
Thanks anyway.

[Something completely different]

In some D&D versions a ressurection could potentially make an undead living once again but in the case of a vampire spawn the vampire master has to be slain probably.

And I have a guess that master is alive somewhere and will get involved later on.

[Panic Fire]

Originally posted by laelli:

Originally posted by R3sistance:

As far as I am aware, there is no specific rule in the ruleset that'd disallow resurrecting a vampire.

Originally posted by AcePost99:

No.

There are ways to restore undead in D&D, but the resurrection spell is not one of them.

And now i'm even more confused :-)
Thanks anyway.

Revivify works for Undead

https://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/04/11/can-i-revify-a-killed-zombie/

[laelli]

Originally posted by Panic Fire:

Revivify works for Undead

https://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/04/11/can-i-revify-a-killed-zombie/

Thanks.