The RAW rules actually allow you a myriad of ways to “raise yourself from the dead”.
Clone is tailor made to raise yourself from the dead.
An Arcana Cleric can cast contingency with revivify as the contingent spell. (There’s other ways to do this but they’re either more complicated or setting specific.)
A wizard can can cast contingency with danse macabre as the contingent spell. (This’ll have a very limited duration.)
Magic jar can let you possess another creature to animate your own body if something happens to it while you’re “away”.
If you’re a humanoid, hitting yourself with a finger of death just before you’re about die can let you rise as a zombie permanently under your own control at the start of your next turn.
Make a simulacrum of yourself to raise the original you at your leisure.
Summon a planar ally to raise you if you die within an agreed upon time frame. (Probably requires bribery.)
The whole concept of liches is basically raising yourself from the dead.
Also of note; Most reanimation spells (animate dead, create undead, raise dead, etc…) are instantaneous and can’t be ended by an antimagic field or dispel magic. (The same can’t always be said for a creator’s control. The creature(s) these spells create usually don’t die/cease to be animated when the creator’s control ends either though.)
I imagine the contingency + danse macabre version, or a variant of this, is what /u/Ghost33313@kbin.social what thinking of, since it would break with loss of concentration.
The books are great too. Very different from the America reboot. The older British versions of the show are a lot closer to original Douglas Adams books.
I’ve been considering doing something with a rogue decaton. Maybe drop some rumors or hints that make it sound like a beholder amassing a construct army, only to reveal it’s a decaton with a bunch of pentadrone minons that never question why their boss has started drifting into LE territory with the orders lately.
This is from a show called Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. This is an edited clip from the 2016 version.
Edit: I put together a brief clip of a scene more representative of the tone of the show, to give people an idea of what they’re actually in for if they go looking for it.
We got the map from the “Headmaster”. Anything in the font for most of the room labels (Dining Hall, Library, Private Chambers, etc…) were already there.
Any rooms or halls on the far side of a secret door and any labels in a smaller font were my annotations.
Lorewise maruts are damn near incorruptable, but even just a rogue modron could be cool if done right. A marut is also unlikely to misinterpret the contract, but the signatories might have.
“[…] A marut enforces what is written, not what was meant by or supposed to be understood from the writing. The Kolyarut rejects contracts that contain vague, contradictory, or unenforceable terms. Beyond that, it doesn’t care whether both parties understand what they’re agreeing to.”
There’s also a reason they’re called “nigh-unstoppable inevitables”.
I guess now that I think about it, a simulacrum is a construct as well, but I’d have a hard time counting one of them. Most powerful constructs tend to be golems or a colossus like the Walking Statues of Waterdeep, not independent thinkers, just powerful brute force minions.
The characters in the top panel are from a New Yorker cartoon. I think it’s supposed to be blushing?
I may have posted the original meme in a discord server somewhere, but I put it on imgur now so it’s available publicly. YoumaybeabletoseewhytheideaofaBBEGbardbroughtthistomind.
Edit: Found where I originally put it on imgur. Huzzah, the history is preserved.
Loving it so far. I haven’t had a good old fashioned dungeon crawl for quite some time. Megadungeon in 5e does throw me off occasionally, but we’re doing pretty well. Only one PC died so far, but the druid/cleric revivified him before it stuck.
I’m in the middle of the 5e version at the moment. We’re level 11 and have reached floor 9 so far. We started December 1st of 2022 and play at least once a week.
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The RAW rules actually allow you a myriad of ways to “raise yourself from the dead”.
The whole concept of liches is basically raising yourself from the dead.
Also of note; Most reanimation spells (animate dead, create undead, raise dead, etc…) are instantaneous and can’t be ended by an antimagic field or dispel magic. (The same can’t always be said for a creator’s control. The creature(s) these spells create usually don’t die/cease to be animated when the creator’s control ends either though.)
I imagine the contingency + danse macabre version, or a variant of this, is what /u/Ghost33313@kbin.social what thinking of, since it would break with loss of concentration.