Abilities That Keep Working After Death

[Steve]

Regeneration with the Resurrection adder continues to work after a character dies, so I'm wondering if there are ways to have other abilities that continue to work after a character dies.

 

Would abilities that are built with the Inherent Advantage also keep working after death?

 

Would abilities that are built with both 0 END Cost and Persistent keep working after death?

[Steve Long]

Unless noted otherwise by a more specific rule, when a character dies, all his powers stop functioning at the end of that Segment. (Regeneration with Resurrection is an obvious exception; by definition it has to work after the character is dead, or it would be useless.) As always, the GM should apply common sense when considering matters like this. For example, an Inherent Extra Limb (such as a tail) ceases functioning after death, but it doesn’t disappear — it’s a part of the character’s body and remains in (nonfunctioning) existence. The same would apply to, for example, an HKA defined as claws or fangs (which unlike an Extra Limb wouldn’t be bought as Inherent).

I’ll consider the issue of “powers that linger beyond death” for inclusion in APG3.