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Does anyone know if in any of the FF game systems for 40k that there are rules for bringing a player back from the dead?

The characters body is 100% intact, or at least it will be. So, it's not a regeneration thing, it's basically summoning that persons soul back from the warp and putting them into their old body.

Are you playing DH1.0?

If so, there is an option called Cybernetic Resurrection, The Inquisitor's Handbook, page 87.

Character needs to have suffered critical damage that incapacitates or to have burned Fate to have stayed alive. You end up being mostly machine, and obviously not completely human any more.

That's not what the OP was asking for, though. The body is intact, but dead (or at least brain dead).

The short answer is 'no'. Unless the soul was stored somewhere, a normal person's soul discorporates at death - the reason chaos likes Eldar so much is that theirs don't, so one could assume that of a sufficiently powerful psyker wouldn't, either.

It's going to be GM fiat, for the most part. The closest thing I can think of is a Halo device, which comes with two issues - firstly it's supposed to be bonded to you before you die, and secondly it steadly overwrites your DNA with a prehistoric psychotic alien. So, you know, downsides.

I'd jsut go with a generic "chaos did it" ritual.

locarno24 wrote:
That's not what the OP was asking for, though. The body is intact, but dead (or at least brain dead).

"The Magos of the Adeptus Mechanicus harbour a great many secrets and ancient and terrible arts. If their price is met, they can salvage the most ravaged body so long as the central nervous system is largely intact and the brain is serviceable. Taking a mangled, burned, but still alive carcass or even the merest threads of flesh and bio-matter, they can construct new body from the remains of the old, or even refit a servitor chassis to house the brain if needed. Less heavily damaged bodies are easier to repair, though the results are far from elegant or guaranteed."

"Full Resurrection: Of all the wonders capable by the machine-smiths, only a few Magos have the skill to perform the feat of full resurrection, and fewer still have the inclination to do it, especially at the behest of others. Assuming that such an individual can be located and their price—far beyond mere money—be met, you are reconstructed with an artificial body, organs harvested from servitor stock or vat-grown synthetics, a process that can have terrible repercussions for the mind. Survivors of this procedure are rarely stable, their personalities and motivations a mere shadow of their former selves."

You were saying?

Thank you HBMC. You have basically shown that people can be brought back to life in 40k, which is kinda what I needed.

One more thing. This character was a very powerful psyker. Would that help at all?

Even if this was the kind of thing there was a few lines of flavor text for, along with like a list of items and a few bland rolls this would be better off implemented by the GM.

If you're a player put forward the idea of a Resurrection, and talk shop on what the coolest ways to go about it would be. Any GM worth their salt will either give an easy "No" or will try find a way to make what you wan to to do fit.

If you're the GM, come up with some plausible ways to make it fit with your game so far. You don't need book/canon approval for making your game cool.

What a perfect excuse to kick off a radical arc.

Your group has suffered a terrible loss. A key member of the party, a comrade, a friend, has given their PCs in the Emperors service.

Each individual deals with their grief in a certain way. Through punishing training regimes, isolation, or burying themselves in ancient texts.

When one fateful night, with a terrible storm raging, shot through with lightning of many colours, a passage in an ancient tome is discovered.

Here beeing ye Anceinte waiys of Resurrrexction, and restorinng fromm the Fobidde Realms ye loste soules.

 Chongara wrote:
If you're the GM, come up with some plausible ways to make it fit with your game so far. You don't need book/canon approval for making your game cool.

He asked if there were any rules to do this. The question was answered. But thanks for telling him that he's having fun the wrong way.

40K is not big on resurrection.

if you are dead dead you could be revived within a few minutes, this is hard reality. But it depends on medical expertise an equipment at hand, and also what you died of.

You could argue that a psyker could possibly reincarnate with mind intact, but then you are looking for a baby, who will awaken to his true nature and possibly memories at puberty.
This is a way of getting the character back in a later campaign, but with a new ID and psysical stats. It wont help now.

then you have the cyber option mentioned above, which is really more of a form of mechanicus undeath.

If the psyker is dead from perils or a very brutal attack forget it, he's gone. Its a bitch to lose a liked character, but the game is much richer if you fully accept risk of loss.

What about a that heretical cult, the Resurrectionists? Don't they have some way to restore life to the dead? Well.... ok, it's more like animating the dead, but from the flavor text in the book (Radical's Handbook, I think... maybe Servants of the Dark Gods... definitely one of those two) the animated corpse can retain it's intelligence and personality and doesn't have to be a shambling zombie (those are more Nurgle's thing).

That would be a Sarcossan Wave Generator, which makes zombies.

Being a psyker actually makes the return to life far less likely, as the soul is consumed more quickly once entering the Warp (which is what happens when you die in 40K).

Of course, there are rules for Sorcery, and if you would like to lead your party down the road to damnation, there are those foul heretics who may, for the right price, enact the proper rituals and invoke the proper Names to grant life where there is none, and return (a) soul to the flesh corpus to grant it that vital spark.

Basically, you get a Sorcerer who has a Major Arcana that will allow this (none exist in the books, afaik), that can give a character a "free" Fate Point to burn (which they use immediately), which will restore them to life... probably gaining multiple d10s of Corruption Poins and Insanity Points in the process, possibly making them a Daemonhost, as well as physical side-effects such as loss of WP, STR and TGH or similar effects.

The Dark Eldar have a resurrection casket which can bring people back after thousands of years, so yeah, it's possible

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If the character was a psyker than...

-Seek out Nurgle daemon

-make deal with Nurgle greater demon to resurrect the dead character.
-(if GM make sure there are massive downsides I.E. bits start falling off him, morbid personality, strange smell, pawn of great evil.

If you have a good GM this could be pretty fun.