This is a situational discussion that i would like some opinions on.
One of my PCs found a heart in a box. It was withered and dead. Another PC stabbed the heart thinking it alive. It was Not. So the one who found it attuned to it causing it to replace his heart with the withered (now stabbed) heart. He immediately died. Our cleric was then like "Boom revivify." Now reading the spell revivify I became confused on if the spell would even work because HIS heart was now not in his body and revivify does not replace body parts.
Here Is My Question, "Would it work? If so, why? If not, why?"
I will be honest though, in the describing of the heart i said when it was touched it did a single heart beat. Maybe this gave a false representation that it was an alive heart? If that is the case then this heart that could be alive might possible be revived when put into his chest? I am unsure.... ANYWAY...
Because of how i described it i decided to allow the revivify to work. In doing so though i did give him a penalty to any healing he receives by 1d4. I have not determined how i will deal with this effect yet and was hoping to have some opinions on this as well. I thank you guys for the messages I received on my previous post and hope you can help me out again :D.
Personally, I'd argue if there is a heart present it doesn't matter if it's his or not. It doesn't replace a missing body part but I think it doesn't matter if it's the same body part.
Because of the vagueness, personally, I'd allow body part substitution but the spell as written just prevents a missing parts from growing back. I think that unless there's something else with their new heart, Revivify works fine. Potentially, as the withered heart struggles back into action, that PC has a level of exhaustion (or your healing debuff works too) but that PC doesn't have any missing body parts, they've just had a surprise heart transplant
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This is a situational discussion that i would like some opinions on.
One of my PCs found a heart in a box. It was withered and dead. Another PC stabbed the heart thinking it alive. It was Not. So the one who found it attuned to it causing it to replace his heart with the withered (now stabbed) heart. He immediately died. Our cleric was then like "Boom revivify." Now reading the spell revivify I became confused on if the spell would even work because HIS heart was now not in his body and revivify does not replace body parts.
Here Is My Question, "Would it work? If so, why? If not, why?"
I will be honest though, in the describing of the heart i said when it was touched it did a single heart beat. Maybe this gave a false representation that it was an alive heart? If that is the case then this heart that could be alive might possible be revived when put into his chest? I am unsure.... ANYWAY...
Because of how i described it i decided to allow the revivify to work. In doing so though i did give him a penalty to any healing he receives by 1d4. I have not determined how i will deal with this effect yet and was hoping to have some opinions on this as well. I thank you guys for the messages I received on my previous post and hope you can help me out again :D.
Personally, I'd argue if there is a heart present it doesn't matter if it's his or not. It doesn't replace a missing body part but I think it doesn't matter if it's the same body part.
Because of the vagueness, personally, I'd allow body part substitution but the spell as written just prevents a missing parts from growing back. I think that unless there's something else with their new heart, Revivify works fine. Potentially, as the withered heart struggles back into action, that PC has a level of exhaustion (or your healing debuff works too) but that PC doesn't have any missing body parts, they've just had a surprise heart transplant