WaterRabbit
Explorer
I think it’s more interesting to dream about how « raise dead » can influence a society.
How much power can such a spell give to caster? How much a church leader will ask to raise a dead king or heir?
Our historical Pope were having a strong power just by allowing divorce. Imagine now raise dead!
An interesting take would be requiring a soul for a soul to raise dead. That would cast raise dead into the morally questionable realm. Anyone raised would want to keep it a secret, which would give the caster powerful leverage.
I tried something previously where I had only one priesthood able to bring back the dead. Each time someone died I required a miniquest from the "friends" of the dead to retrieve the soul. I was working OK, but I had to add an intermediate step to keep from derailing the adventure too much. So raise could be cast by other priests but only within an hour of the time of passing since the soul was still hanging around the body. I was leaning on making it 1d10 minutes per level of the character to add some randomness to it.