One intriguing takeaway would be that the version of
Create Specters (!) in this document may indicate even more how it may have been intended to allow the party to take dead PCs with them until they got out of the dungeon and to the nearby village—where high-level NPCs (obviously put there solely for this purpose) waited to restore them to life.
“Specters get no experience”!
And then, of course, there’s
Dreams (
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) and
Phantoms!
Mysterious things, phantoms. Never quite got to grips with how to deal with these monster-wise.