D&D 5E Revivify and Clone

[Quartz]

Does having a Clone available prevent Revivify from working? On the basis that the soul goes straight to the clone?

 

[Charlaquin]

Does having a Clone available prevent Revivify from working? On the basis that the soul goes straight to the clone?

No. The whole idea of Revivify is that you use it before the soul has had time to even leave the body. That’s why it has the 1-minute time limit and doesn’t include the “If the creature's soul is both willing and at liberty to rejoin the body” clause that other raise dead spells do.

 

[Fanaelialae]

It's technically up to the DM. There's nothing that officially states (afaik) that it takes a soul a minute to leave the body and activate the clone. Your DM could rule that it occurs instantaneously. But I think @Charlaquin 's reasoning is sound.

 

[jasper]

Just what is the soul doing in the ten rounds before it leaves the body? Review of its life? Checking to make sure the plumbing is shut off? Turning out the lights? One last raid in Neverwinter? What?

 

[Fenris-77]

Just what is the soul doing in the ten rounds before it leaves the body? Review of its life? Checking to make sure the plumbing is shut off? Turning out the lights? One last raid in Neverwinter? What?

Have you ever tried to get a change of address done in Faerun? That shizz takes forever.

 

[Charlaquin]

Just what is the soul doing in the ten rounds before it leaves the body? Review of its life?

Maybe that’s the “flashing before your eyes?”

 

[Fanaelialae]

Just what is the soul doing in the ten rounds before it leaves the body? Review of its life? Checking to make sure the plumbing is shut off? Turning out the lights? One last raid in Neverwinter? What?

Waiting for the Reaper to show?

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Just what is the soul doing in the ten rounds before it leaves the body? Review of its life? Checking to make sure the plumbing is shut off? Turning out the lights? One last raid in Neverwinter? What?

Well if dying is anything like going to work, then the soul got a couple blocks away and thought, "Wait! Did I turn off the oven?"
Or maybe it's just hunting for the car keys.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Does having a Clone available prevent Revivify from working? On the basis that the soul goes straight to the clone?

This presents a whole new list of reasons to hate Clone.

It's a terrible spell, and that's before we get into epistemology/deontology.

 

[MarkB]

The "soul hasn't yet departed the body" idea is a reasonable inference to make, simply from the face that revivify is the only resurrection spell which lacks that "soul must be free and willing to return" clause. Even clone itself, which is potentially instantaneous so you'd think the soul wouldn't have had time to get into trouble, includes that clause.