True Resurrection leaves you in the same race, Reincarnate does the whole race swap, and I would rule that you lose the base feat from your racial bonus (something is lost to the realm of death).
It was part of the racial bonuses so it would go away with a change in race.
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Worth noting that Reincarnate cannot bring a character back to life, if they were slain with a Disintegrate - it quite specifically needs True Resurrection or a Wish.
Well if the group does not have access to True Resurrection there are three choices:
1. You make a new character.
2. The group begins a quest to find a means of gaining access to True Resurrection to bring you back. To avoid you being there doing nothing in the sessions your DM might find ways to still include you: you talk to the characters in dream scenarios, you are a ghost travelling with them, you make a temporary character or you have your own adventure in the afterlife as you seek to find a way to resurrect yourself after hearing about a method of doing so hidden in these realms of the dead.
3. You are brought back as some wraith-thing by an evil necromancer and sent back to your friends as a means of converting them to evil, corrupting their souls, or perhaps you just escaped and trying to warn them. You could be some homebrew undead ghost wraith thing or just take the stats of an undead monster or your old stats but with new equipment and now classed undead.
What an exciting opportunity you now have! Death can be such fun in D&D!
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Yeah, True Resurrection is my only opinion and it states that if there is no body a new one of the creature of your choosing can be created.
I think that you're letting yourself get sidetracked by paraphrasing, when the actual language of the spell provides no real ambiguity. You do not get to create a new body "of your choosing," you rather specifically get to create "a new body" of "the creature." Which is to say, the same body, of the same type/race as the one that was destroyed.
Yeah, True Resurrection is my only opinion and it states that if there is no body a new one of the creature of your choosing can be created.
"The spell can even provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature’s name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you" means you choose the space that the creature appears in. The creature that appears is still the original creature.
If I do manage to acquire a True Resurrection and change race, would I lose my feat from starting as Variant Human?
Resurrection and True Resurrection do not change your race, Reincarnate does.
True Resurrection leaves you in the same race, Reincarnate does the whole race swap, and I would rule that you lose the base feat from your racial bonus (something is lost to the realm of death).
It was part of the racial bonuses so it would go away with a change in race.
"Where words fail, swords prevail. Where blood is spilled, my cup is filled" -Cartaphilus
"I have found the answer to the meaning of life. You ask me what the answer is? You already know what the answer to life is. You fear it more than the strike of a viper, the ravages of disease, the ire of a lover. The answer is always death. But death is a gentle mistress with a sweet embrace, and you owe her a debt of restitution. Life is not a gift, it is a loan."
Worth noting that Reincarnate cannot bring a character back to life, if they were slain with a Disintegrate - it quite specifically needs True Resurrection or a Wish.
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Yeah, True Resurrection is my only opinion and it states that if there is no body a new one of the creature of your choosing can be created.
Well if the group does not have access to True Resurrection there are three choices:
1. You make a new character.
2. The group begins a quest to find a means of gaining access to True Resurrection to bring you back. To avoid you being there doing nothing in the sessions your DM might find ways to still include you: you talk to the characters in dream scenarios, you are a ghost travelling with them, you make a temporary character or you have your own adventure in the afterlife as you seek to find a way to resurrect yourself after hearing about a method of doing so hidden in these realms of the dead.
3. You are brought back as some wraith-thing by an evil necromancer and sent back to your friends as a means of converting them to evil, corrupting their souls, or perhaps you just escaped and trying to warn them. You could be some homebrew undead ghost wraith thing or just take the stats of an undead monster or your old stats but with new equipment and now classed undead.
What an exciting opportunity you now have! Death can be such fun in D&D!
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I think that you're letting yourself get sidetracked by paraphrasing, when the actual language of the spell provides no real ambiguity. You do not get to create a new body "of your choosing," you rather specifically get to create "a new body" of "the creature." Which is to say, the same body, of the same type/race as the one that was destroyed.
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"The spell can even provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature’s name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you" means you choose the space that the creature appears in. The creature that appears is still the original creature.
Ah I see my confusion! I was reading it as affecting me instead of from the caster perspective! Oops! Thanks for setting me straight! 😁