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Roy's plainly visible at least. As is everyone else we see. But no bodily worries, not even those outsiders have to contend with, seem to be a thing for him:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0499.html

I would suggest that souls, unlike lantern archons, can't actually be harmed normally - they're not "creatures" by D&D standards, and don't actually have stats.


EDIT: Apparently, The Giant has said souls in the afterlife are interactable with, by adventurers:

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...-After-vs-Life

you will never improve at any skill you know, never have a say in what happens in the world, never have children if you haven't already, never talk to anyone with a different point of view, never experience any real risk, never visit anywhere else, and never see any friends or family members who did not share the exact same shade of alignment as you. Oh, and you can still be destroyed by evil adventurers, but you never get any better at defending yourself.

And that's the Lawful Good afterlife.

Dead souls cannot earn XP, gain levels, learn feats, or increase skills.

so Roy's question "can I be killed in this form" has an answer - Yes:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0497.html

Eh, getting a new body as a petitioner doesn't mean that you weren't a petitioner before.

Get A New Body: Some individual souls come to the attention of the gods and powerful outsiders that inhabit the planes, either because the souls were exceptionally good or wicked in life or because the deity sees great potential in an otherwise unremarkable soul. These souls are granted new bodies and become outsiders called petitioners.

So by implication, prior to becoming an Outsider and a petitioner, you weren't one before.

Other features of a Dead Soul as opposed to a petitioner, I would suggest - not having a heartbeat, not having to breathe, and not having to move their legs to get around:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0665.html

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/typesSubty...m#outsiderType

Outsiders, by contrast, qualify as living creatures - and they do have to breathe.