AD&D's Reincarnate/Reincarnation spell returns a being to life in a couple
of weeks in an adult body of the creature it is to become.  Since this is
caused by magick, what happens to the soul of the creature already in
possesion of the body?  I would think that it probably gets kicked out to be
reincarnated in the body of a baby of what it is to become, or goes off to
the afterlife the original soul believed in and was more oriented towards.
Given that, shouldn't the casting of this spell be considered an evil action?

2 responses total.

Oo, there's an interesting one. I'd always been under the impression that the
body in question just appeared, rather than being taken from another soul
using it.

One other gimmick you could use to keep it from being an evil action is to
say that the spell picks a body whose soul is due to leave it anyway.

For the first idea, doesn't the spell description say that the character meets
up with his/her former comrades in a couple of weeks?  The body does do some
travelling . . . mainly to get back to former comrades.  Perhaps it could be
that the spell takes that long to FORM the new body . . .

As to your second idea, well, it's interesting.

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