The only reason your grop is holding together is that they all need each other, remove that and they will send you to hell faster than Gale did in his campfire scene. :-/
I'm not sure I understand your suggested fix.
- Are you saying that it is implied we are surviving because we have companions to watch our backs? That feels very much in line with UnknownEvil's suggestion: We dont die because...why waste time with death as long as someone is still standing?
- Are you saying that death should just be permanent? The tadpole emerges from companions, but you can't raise them in any way? Does that not still require an explanation as to why my clerics reveify, raise dead, resurection, etc... spells are not working on anyone I can actually cast them on? I wouldn't want to be on Larians bug report team if that is the solution.
- Are you saying just let death fix the problem for everyone but the player controlled character(s)? If you raise a dead companion, they get up and say "Thanks for all the fish! Laterz!", but if you have an NPC raise a PC, the tadpole is still there because... The Larian DM says so. I don't really find that solution any more satisfactory than the current situation.
Please clarify. Some of these might work, but I still feel my idea is the lowest budget.
Neither ...
I just say that the only reason your grop is traveling together, working together, sometimes even talking together or in Shadowheart case standing silently (and condemning) next to each other ... is the fact that they all have Tadpole in their heads, and they all need to resolve this problem.
Remove tadpole and they have no reason to stay.
Therefore, logicaly, in order to keep them stay, tadpole needs to stay.
If you desperately need some headcannon to explain this ... just count the facts and connect dots:
- When tadpoled NPC die (permanently) tadpole emerges ...
- When tadpoled PC die (permanently) tadpole emerges ... (acording to datamined stuff)
- When tadpoled PC die (temporarily) tadpole does not emerge ...
- Tadpoles connect minds of our companions, so they are able to read each other thougts ...
- Tadpoles are simple creatures, but they are not stupid ...
- To ressurect someone (at least with spells we curently have), you need functional body for his spirit to return ...
- Our characters do not wish to die.
(It seems incredibly funny that i actualy need to say this out loud.)
Conclusions:
- Transformating our heads into red mush with pieces of bones is not an option > non functional body.
- Any other way would not guarantee that tadpole will die too.
- When we kill someone, his tadpole knows that this was intentional ... there is nobody to ressurect it, therefore it emerges and try to reach safety ...
- When we are killed, tadpole knows there are other party members who will ressurect us, since they come to conclusion that they all "need each other".
Final conclusion:
This whole "method" is unusable in this case.
Would the DM pipe in and say it wont work
I believe they allready did.
