Reincarnation

[bodrin]

Originally Posted by Mathias

My reading is that it does replace the racial traits. From near the end of the spell's description text:

"The reincarnated creature gains all abilities associated with its new form, including forms of movement and speeds, natural armor, natural attacks, extraordinary abilities, and the like, but it doesn't automatically speak the language of the new form."

+1 to this statement.

And Aaron, I am a hard ass DM, my players took 6 weeks (real time) to cover a 100 foot distance to a temple in my Age of Worms campaign. (Eviscerator Beetles) Ahhh Spire of Long Shadows how they abhor thee.

[mxyzplk]

Yes, our interpretation is that he should lose human racial traits and gain orcish ones (darkvision, ferocity), except with some more complicated stat math and not losing feats/skill points.

[Lord Magus]

The way I play it is that the character gains the new race's physical abilities, but retains the previous race's mental ones. This requires a little more fiddling around; ShadowChemosh's adjustments come in handy for this, esp. Racial Ability: Disable.

[dartnet]

Originally Posted by Aaron

That's why you should be a hard-ass DM like me and just ban Rezzing outright. Dead is Dead in my game.

I am gearing up to run a Pathfinder Ravenloft game. So rezzing will be fun....for me...

[Aaron]

Ah, Ravenloft!

Ressurection is like a box of chocolates.

[dartnet]

Originally Posted by Aaron

Ah, Ravenloft!

Ressurection is like a box of chocolates.

Aaron I will send you a copy of the data file when I am done.

[Frodie]

Ah, Ravenloft would be very cool!

[Fuzzy]

Reincarnating the thread... So we had a half-orc die last night, and are contemplating reincarnation (we actually found a scroll of reincarnate on a druid that we killed in the same battle, so we feel we have to give it a shot. First issue - no druid in our group, on a remote island away from civilization.. wouldn't be able to get back to find someone to perform it within the 1 week time limit.

So first step is someone has to try use magic device to get the scroll to work.. hopefully it does.

But IF if does, I've gotta figure out what to do with it as far as hero lab. The odds of him coming back as a half-orc are not very high (10%), so I should be ready to set up the race change. The way I understand Reincarnate, anything having to do with knowledge and the mind stays, anything having to do with the body goes. The skills, languages, classes/xp, etc, are easy, i can tweak them as necessary if the race changes what Hero Lab thinks they should have.

Racial traits, on the other hand, need to be considered. individually.
Darkvision is physical, so it should go away
Orc blood, physical, gone.
Orcish Weapon Familiarity is knowledge, should stay
Intimidating, according to the flavor on the trait, is 'due to their ferocious nature', so it is actually behavioral, not physical, so it should stay.
Sacred Tattoo (which he took instead of Orc Ferocity) is an odd one. Its a mental/spiritual effect, manifested by a physical alteration to his body - I think this should go away, unless he tattoos his new form - which might be fun with a halfling with an orcish facial tattoo... He actually even has 4 ranks in Craft (tattoo), so this seems like a guaranteed thing.

Regarding how to do these in Hero Lab, I'm thinking I may make a custom ART for whatever new race he gets, and have it replace mental traits from the new race, and bootstrap in the physical ones from the old.