I translate German folk tales.

I am also interested in tabletop role-playing games.

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  • I am also using a D&Desque setup for my world (currently leaning towards Pathfinder 2E).

    I am fully embracing both raise dead and reincarnate spell effects. This has the implication that as long as someone is rich and take precautions, they are hard to kill for good. “Raise dead” will bring them back until they reach old age, and “Reincarnate” will bring them back even if they die of old age - but with a young, healthy body from a random ancestry!

    This has a number of interesting social effects:

    • Unlike in our world, bigotry against people who “look different” is not tolerated by the ultra-rich, since they might very well find themselves within a body of a marginalized minority the next time around!

    • Wealth is no longer “dynastic” (though this is still an ongoing shift in my world). Since the ultra-rich generally hope to stave off death indefinitely, they see less reason to build up “heirs”. They might still have large number of descendants (often from different ancestries!), and might even be fond of them… but often, they are seen as means to an end, as (presumably) loyal servants for their financial empires.

    • There is a sharp divide between those who can afford those repeated resurrections, and those who are well-off but who still can’t easily afford coming back from the dead. The competition among the latter who wish to join the former is fierce.