DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
300 gp is six pounds of gold, worth over $137,000 US by today’s prices. I wouldn’t exactly call that chump change, although it does seem like a bargain for bringing back a fallen comrade.
While it is a lot in "today's market", when you consider a starting character averages, what 80-100 gp, to equip themselves, 300 gp really isn't the much for most games IME. It would be interesting to play a game where gold really WAS valuable and silver or copper was the typical coin.
I suppose even in our game, it is a nice hefty sum the way the DM explains it. He equates 1 cp = $1 USD. So, 300 gp would be $30,000. But some of our characters, who haven't had to spend a lot of coin really, have saved 4000-5000 gp worth of treasure at this point (about level 9).
I actually think your party may have had more interesting logistical issues to deal with if your companion had been brought back with a 0 hit point maximum than you did having to transport her corpse. Keeping the copper pieces on her eyes sounds like a bit of a challenge, but if she were alive, you’d have to be careful about causing any damage, or she’d die instantly, but I guess at that point you could just cast revivify again, so I kind of see what you mean.
Some of it will be a bit of a challenge, we have to fin out when the next session starts. But, yeah, casting Revivify again and again makes things too easy in 5E IMO. But hey, tables differ.