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2011-10-19, 04:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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How to kill a ghost?
As the title implies, how can you kill a ghost and prevent it from coming back?
The only three methods I can think of are:
1) set right whatever is preventing the ghost from resting in peace (for the purposes of this thread, this method is considered to be either something impossible or repulsive to the PCs).
2) The "True Death" ability of the Hunter of the Dead prestige class.
3) Sphere of Annihilation.
Any other ways?
I just find myself troubled by the idea that an epic level BBEG can find himself unable to get rid of a mere 16 HD ghost.Wolfen Houndog - The World in Revolt (4e)
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2011-10-19, 04:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How to kill a ghost?
Epic-fied version of Soul Bind that works on any soul not attatched to a body.
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2011-10-19, 05:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How to kill a ghost?
wouldn't the sun domain be able to get rid of it? total destruction? i guess it depends on your take on the rejuvenation ability. some might say that the sphere of annihilation might not work.
on the whole though, ghosts should be sort of bound by there "unsettled business", so just avoiding getting caught in that might be suffice.
also, if the BBEG has the force to destroy this ghost fairly easily, it can then go at least a few days without interruption, and then kill it again, and again, and again... it might even be a sport to the BBEG, and an interesting NPC for the PCs to talk with?
hope this helped.
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2011-10-19, 06:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-20, 12:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How to kill a ghost?
Rebuke Undead or some way of controlling it + true resurrection
Force it to accept the resurrection means its now living and no longer a ghost.
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2011-10-20, 01:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How to kill a ghost?
Forcecage+Permanency can deal with the ghost indefinitely, if not kill it. Plane shift can work too, particularly to any planes which force checks to want to leave.
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2011-10-20, 01:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How to kill a ghost?
Clever, but let's assume the ghost is too old for a True Resurrection.
However, this does give me an idea: control, kill, and order them to fail their level check (can you do that by RAW?).
This is a thought exercise; a "what if a BBEG happened to need to kill a ghost?" scenario.Wolfen Houndog - The World in Revolt (4e)
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2011-10-20, 02:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How to kill a ghost?
Imprison it with the imprisonment spell.
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2011-10-20, 02:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-20, 02:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How to kill a ghost?
Use its soul as a spell component if using the souls as power variant rules from the book of vile darkness.
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2011-10-21, 09:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How to kill a ghost?
Sphere of Annihilation is debatable, but there's no real reason to go into that here.
Alternate:
Plane Shift (or Gate) to the Ethereal. Cast Antimagic Field. Kill it in melee. Rejuvenation is (Su). Problem solved.
Alternate:
Don't kill it. Command it (Rebuking), control it (Command / Control undead), or trap it (Shades(Trap the Soul), Imprisonment, Smoky Confinement (Spell Compendium), possibly a few others).Of course, by the time I finish this post, it will already be obsolete. C'est la vie.
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2011-10-21, 10:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How to kill a ghost?
Use the spell ability rip out of serpent kingdoms to permanently remove the rejuvination ability from the ghost and give it to someone else for 1 hour/ CL.
The ghost loses rejuv forever.
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2011-10-22, 02:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How to kill a ghost?
Depending upon whether level checks are failed on a nat 1 (I don't think so), you can just wait for a nat one while you farm it for XP if it's 14 HD or less..
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2011-10-22, 02:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How to kill a ghost?
The "Expunge the Supernatural" (on the Ghost's Rejuvenation) and "Unname" spells from Tome of Magic also work.
Edit: Added parenthesesI should add something more productive here...