School: Necromancy
Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V S M (10 Obsidian Gems and 50 Silver)
Duration: Instantaneous
Classes: Whispers Bard, Death Cleric, Spore Druid, Oathbreaker Paladin, Shadow Magic Sorcerer, Undying Warlock, Necromancer Wizard

Description:
You return a dead creature you touch to life, provided that it has been dead no longer than 10 days. The creature returns as an Undead. (Players’ consent is required for this ritual to be performed on them.)

Roll on the Resurrection ritual table and if you critically fail, you die and return as a Raised Undead yourself.

This spell neutralizes any poisons and cures nonmagical diseases that affected the creature when it died. This spell doesn’t, however, remove magical diseases, curses, or similar effects; if these aren’t first removed before casting the spell, they take effect when the creature returns to life.

This spell closes all mortal wounds, but it doesn’t restore missing body parts. If the creature is lacking body parts or organs integral for its survival—its head, for instance—the spell automatically fails.

If someone is resurrected by Raise Dead, they become a “Raised Undead”

((Last updated: 9.12.2024))