I'm a player who finds the path of RP more rewarding and exciting than the final destination. I do think it cheapens the value to have people continuously popping back up again, but I kinda get attached to my chars. In campaigns with lots of deaths and no rezzes, it almost became tiresome to come up with new and interesting character concepts. If the battle was a draw, then we're bringing new people against a foe that got reinforcements while we were. The draws and deaths continued with no advancement. Why role play or even make a back story when he's only going to be around a couple sessions?
This doesn't seem like a terrible idea. I would say keep reincarnation where it is. There are vast ways to roleplay reincarnation, especially since you can't turn into a roach any more. I remember being a pixie well lol. The only people who would dislike this are those disincluded from certain PrC's with a new race (though that could probably be worked around), or people who need their char to be 'sexy'.
It all depends if you are playing a fighting heavy campaign where deaths are very inevitable, or a slower campaign where people role play enough to find the party's strengths and weaknesses and survive longer as a result.
In our 3e campaign Raise Dead was moved up to take over the Resurrection spell slot, and Resurrection moved up further to take over the True Resurrection slot. That certainly reduced how often they were seen in play.
This doesn't seem like a terrible idea. I would say keep reincarnation where it is. There are vast ways to roleplay reincarnation, especially since you can't turn into a roach any more. I remember being a pixie well lol. The only people who would dislike this are those disincluded from certain PrC's with a new race (though that could probably be worked around), or people who need their char to be 'sexy'.
It all depends if you are playing a fighting heavy campaign where deaths are very inevitable, or a slower campaign where people role play enough to find the party's strengths and weaknesses and survive longer as a result.