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Disclaimer: this is purposefully obtuse.

Other effects in the game which explicitly state they kill you:

Shadows, succubi, massive damage, death saving throws, beholder death ray (notably not even their disintegration ray kills you), power word kill, vampires, mind flayers, night hags, drow inquisitors.

Clearly, if they intended for disintegration to kill you, they'd have said so. Since specific overrides general, and there is no general rule that disintegrated creatures are dead, I rest my case. QED.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

AI GM be like: "Yep. Seems legit."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Probably should go join the Thousand ~~Suns~~ Sons. They might set you up with some nice power armor.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

This is the real meaning of the exception that proves the rule.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why would it matter if it says you die? It's not like there's a rule that dead characters can't take actions. Or that they transform into objects. Or get sent to another plane of existence depending on who they worship and their alignment while leaving an object behind.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I would argue that by this logic, your ability scores also fall to 0, killing you

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I'd like to imagine that this is how non-necromantic sapient undead creatures are created, someone has all their flesh incinerated away but somehow their soul clings to the bones, and bam sapient skeleton.

In this case it could result in a poltergeist, which uses the dust to interact with things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well memed, but it's no fun to try to argue with someone who will take everything in bad faith, even as a joke.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I disagree, I think it's funny as long as this is all theory.

If a player was actually serious about wanting to do this as more than a meme, and was arguing this hard for it I'd be mad as hell. In this context, though? It's fine. I think it's amusing how hard people can stretch the rules. It's similar to the peasant railgun. Hilarious concept. I'm still not okay with someone trying to actually use a peasant railgun.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I’m just going to swing for the fences with the always objectionable, “fiction trumps rules.”

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