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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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[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 137 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ain't nothin' in the RAW that states a sentient pile of dust can't play basketball.

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[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 48 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I see no flaw in this argument. Instead of dying, the character exists like the guy from “One” by Metallica, desperately waiting for a stiff breeze to end his existence.

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[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean, from your characters perspective, death is preferable to being transmuted to dust, especially in a setting with a well established afterlife.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hey, you don't know my character. He's making the best of his fine dusty life.

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[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 139 points 6 months ago (1 children)

OP you appear to be committed to (not) dying on this hill and I applaud you

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 84 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I like it RAW and wriggling!

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[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 87 points 6 months ago (3 children)

A disintegrated creature and everything it is wearing and carrying, except magic items, are reduced to a pile of fine gray dust. The creature can be restored to life only by means of a true resurrection or a wish spell.

Why would you need to be "restored to life" if you weren't dead?

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The difficulty of restoring to life someone who is already alive is why such high-level magic is required.

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 91 points 6 months ago (31 children)

Because you could later die. So a creature that has been disintegrated, and then later dies, can only be brought back by those means.

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You're misreading the language. It is present-tense, not future.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not misreading anything. "The creature can only..." applies a new state to the creature. After that state has been applied, or somehow reversed (unaware of any way to do this by RAW), then the creature can only be brought back to life by the means mentioned in the spell.

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 7 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Yes you are. You're intentionally abusing a weakness in English language (present and future tense are often written the same way so must be inferred by context) to assume something clearly not intended by the 2 sentences considered holistically.

It's a funny joke. +1, but, ain't no DM takin dis Hail Mary from a player seriously. 😂

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

Wanna bet?

I'd make it an absolute realistic pile of dust, unable to move, unable to cast magic, fight, or anything but be carried along by whatever picked it up, and when enough of the dust gets separated, death is automatic.

But I'd still allow it as an interesting edge case once.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Just playing the game RAW.

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's like this for all TTRPGs. Someone always be tryin to game the system. 😎

[–] Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

It's like this for all TTRPGs. Someone always be trying to rules lawyer away someone's fun. 😎

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[–] Alinor@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, I don't know enough about the English language to recognise the difference. What would the phrase be in future tense?

[–] milkisklim@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

No. He's trolling you. No Reasonable person thinks this.

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 2 points 6 months ago

If the creature dies it can be restored to life only by means of...

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