First off, I agree completely with the idea of just asking them. Much like you, I firmly believe that at any good climactic point for a character, it is worth asking the player if they want to move on from playing that person. Death be no different here.
As you mention, there are two broad ways to approach this in terms of playing. Either playing their "life in the after life", or linking them more directly to the mortal plane. Which is more interesting is going to depend on the players in question.
My understanding is that the different mythologies and cults have slightly different afterlives. We only really have any good information on the Orlanthi, so I think you have to draw a bit from the short "otherworld" descriptions in the various religions/cults to draw some conclusions.
There certainly seems to be the implication people don't leave their god much, but I certainly see no reason to assume that is true all the time.
On Wed, 2005-22-06 at 16:28 -0500, Mike Holmes wrote:
> This leads me to a question that's really sorta deep, and has been plaguing
> me lately. Is a mundane world spirit really in the mundane world? If so,
> then it has to have a body, right? Well, I've seen examples of "incorporeal
> spirits." Are these really in the mundane world? Or just "helping" across
> the barriers between the world, instead existing in the spirit world in a
> place parallel to an associated place in the mundane world?
> Please think about the question twice before answering, because it may not
> be as simple as it seems.
I'm not sure which spirits you are talking about. Which ones are incorporeal?
LC
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