Unless you had reason to suspect that she was faking her own death, you probably would not be casting Dispel Magic for this purpose. Feign death is supposed to imitate the state of death so closely that most people could not tell the difference.
Perhaps if someone had a higher level Divination spell or if you had a Grave domain Cleric in your party, you could suss out that her death was fake.
I guess the issue here is that to us, in character, she appeared to be dead. So how would you determine that you would need to use Dispel Magic?
Detect Magic - although, realistically you would not know to use it. You would not know anything is amiss except she is dead- that is the point of the spell. Normal detection like medicine checks and even Divination magic will fail. This isn't a spell you should use on yourself without telling somebody, really. Ensures you don't get buried alive or cremated.
Unless you had reason to suspect that she was faking her own death, you probably would not be casting Dispel Magic for this purpose. Feign death is supposed to imitate the state of death so closely that most people could not tell the difference.
Perhaps if someone had a higher level Divination spell or if you had a Grave domain Cleric in your party, you could suss out that her death was fake.
Would require DM shenanigans on that. By the effect of the spell you will appear dead to all ways of sensing it, or to phrase it like the spell: "the target appears dead to all outward inspection and to spells used to determine the target’s status. "
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I imagine that if someone had tried to cast Revivify, Raise Dead, etc (a legitimate in-character choice) and it didn't work one might become suspicious. Side note, I'd probably allow some fun shenanigans if someone tries to cast Animate Dead on the "corpse".
If anyone casts Feign Death on oneself without telling anyone, it would be remiss to not have some shenanigans at the caster's expense. It's a law or something, I'm sure. Probably an unbreakable RAW (or should be - definitely a RAF).
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Soooo.... Long story short. We had a party member cast Feign Death on herself... How do we wake her up without waiting on the duration?
You don't. You either Dispel Magic or wait it out.
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@InquisitiveCoder we ended up waiting it out, but just was curious what the community thought lol
Yeah, dispel magic is pretty much the only shortcut.
I guess the issue here is that to us, in character, she appeared to be dead. So how would you determine that you would need to use Dispel Magic?
Unless you had reason to suspect that she was faking her own death, you probably would not be casting Dispel Magic for this purpose. Feign death is supposed to imitate the state of death so closely that most people could not tell the difference.
Perhaps if someone had a higher level Divination spell or if you had a Grave domain Cleric in your party, you could suss out that her death was fake.
Dispel Magic
Detect Magic - although, realistically you would not know to use it. You would not know anything is amiss except she is dead- that is the point of the spell. Normal detection like medicine checks and even Divination magic will fail. This isn't a spell you should use on yourself without telling somebody, really. Ensures you don't get buried alive or cremated.
Would require DM shenanigans on that. By the effect of the spell you will appear dead to all ways of sensing it, or to phrase it like the spell: "the target appears dead to all outward inspection and to spells used to determine the target’s status. "
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I imagine that if someone had tried to cast Revivify, Raise Dead, etc (a legitimate in-character choice) and it didn't work one might become suspicious. Side note, I'd probably allow some fun shenanigans if someone tries to cast Animate Dead on the "corpse".
If anyone casts Feign Death on oneself without telling anyone, it would be remiss to not have some shenanigans at the caster's expense. It's a law or something, I'm sure. Probably an unbreakable RAW (or should be - definitely a RAF).
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Thanks for all the feedback! We definitely had some laughs at her expense...