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Sage Advice - Amulet of Life Protection
by Skip Williams

This month, our sage unravels mysteries from all corners of the AD&D(R) game multiverse, from how amulets of life protection really work to where deities live.

**An amulet of life protection works against all sorts of potent mental attacks, but how does its second power, the ability to hold the wear er's psyche for up to seven days before it departs to the plane of its alignment, work? A raise dead spell can help a person who has been dead longer than seven days, so what's the point?**

If one assumes that at death a character's psyche departs to the plane of its alignment, then the amulet's second power becomes obvious. It prevents the character from dying until seven days have passed. If "killed" the wearer remains at 0 hit points (or -10 hit points if you use the _Hovering at Death's Door_ optional rule) until the character's hit points are brought back into positive numbers by magical healing or until seven days pass, in which case the character really dies and must be raised or resurrected (if that is possible).

Most DMs also will allow a character with an amulet of life protection to be raised or resurrected even if the character's body has been destroyed, as long as the amulet survives. In any case, the wear er can be raised or resurrected even after being killed by a death spell or a demilich or by any other special attack that would otherwise slay the victim irrevocably.

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