V9: Returning To Life

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Returning To Life

There are two ways a dead player can return to life: Respawning and Revival. When a dead player is returns to life by one of these means they must loudly declare ‘ALIVE!’, at which point they immediately lose their ‘Dead’ condition and become a living player once more.

Respawning

Each Amtgard activity will have rules for when, where, how, and even IF players are able to respawn after death. Consult the rules for your particular activity or check in with the Game Organizer or Reeve during setup. Most commonly, players will have to wait a certain amount of time (called a ‘Death Count’) and then automatically return to life at a specific respawn location.

When a player returns to life by respawning, they are restored in the following way:

• All wounds are restored.
• All armored locations are restored to full value.
• All weapons, shields, and other equipment are restored.
• All uses of per-life abilities are restored.
• All enchantments are removed.
• All remaining status effects are removed, including Severed.

Revival

Revival occurs when a player is returned to life through a means other than Respawning, such as the use of an ability like the Resurrect spell.

When revived, a player is brought back to life with their wounds restored, but their armor, equipment, enchantments, and abilities remain in the same state they were before they died. Some effects may bestow additional restoration to the recipient.