Is there any way to use the old "character who was presumed

>>50295649
It may work, if the character was either left to die in the enemy territory, or had sustained injuries that may be reversed with medicine/magic. If the fucker was shot in the head then yes, it will be hacky as fuck.

>>50295649

Boss alternate forms. The dragon you defeated and knocked down a mountain rolled into a [Cursed Swamp], and now it's a near-mindless maybe undead and very feral version of itself stalking around the muck, dragging its broken wings behind it, stalking as little more than a massive bulwark of shadow through the swamp's thick, shrouding mist cover.

>>50296963
I've pulled that trick out of the hat where a former party member was boom-head shot'ed, left for dead then came back. Turns out he was a clone with a computer for a brain and programmed to believe he was the dead party member, but they didn't figure that out until they were standing over his again head shot corpse.

>>50295649

It really depends. I mean it really depends on if it makes sense in my opinion. Ass long as it doesn't feel like an ass pull, as long as its conceivable, then i think its fine.

>>50295649
Sucks to be my party, because a past ally had a son due to time-shenanigans and if he ever figures out how they (mostly by accident) screwed over his dad, there's going to be hell to pay.

>>50295649
Yes. Foreshadowing.

Depends on setting.

Exalted has Abyssal Exalts for just this purpose, really.

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>>50296963
What if the character was taken prisoner, presumed to have died of torture but was instead just mindbroken into serving the BBEG?