Disheveled and slightly manic, this is an NPC that can chat with a downed character briefly before they’re brought back–they might even have some “helpful advice” like ‘try taking up crochet, it’s a lovely trade and you don’t have to worry about anything’ to dispense with characters making their death saves. Life is much more interesting and that means the guardian angel watching over you is stressed. But you’re different, you go swinging swords at giants and when you see a jewel floating on an island over a river of lava, you try to take it. They say everyone’s got a guardian angel–everyone mostly stays indoors, works the farm, or sews tapestries. After all, just because you’re dead or dying is no reason to stop having something to do. Whatever the reason, here are five heavenly NPC archetypes you can use the next time your characters find themselves knocking on Death’s Door. Or even if they don’t quite die, a party of adventurers will one day be powerful enough to shake the foundations of the heavens, or they might just stumble onto a planar rift through dumb luck. That is to say, the typical party of D&D adventurers is as familiar with the front lobby of the afterlife as they are with the rules for whatever their primary combat mechanism is. Life and death are two halves of the same coin, and being a coin, it’s certain to be an object that adventurers will snatch up greedily and placed into a bag of holding with all the other valuables.

Death might have a hard time sticking when it comes to adventurers, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make some friends along the way.

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