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My previous edition I played was 3.5. It was my favourite before 5th, until I DM'd a game that got to higher levels and saw how broken it was. I have played all editions but 4th since 1974. My favourite edition is 5th. I run long term campaigns lasting years of real time and tend to take my...

It is interesting. Probably not a choice I would have made. I am not sure raising the dead is a recognized bardic tradition, and in theory a bard can get those spells from their Magical Secrets ability. As a whole, I tend to feel that too many classes have the ability to raise from the dead.

No, not trolling. Didn't realize you were the arbiter of trolldom. Did you look at some of the current adventure paths and how much coin they give through level 14? It's not that much. Have you seen, depending on the pace of your campaign, how much daily living expenses cost? Have you checked...

I never said the transmuter wouldn't charge *shake my head*. I said it costs the Transmuter nothing. So he can do it at will once a day forever.

Ah...I see. Your PCs don't have anything else to spend on. Not lifestyle (which should be wealthy for such lofty levelled PCs). Not a stronghold. Not retainers. Not costly material components. Nope. Nothing but sitting around waiting to pay for raise dead. BTW, Revivify only works for 1...

My concerns include campaign world logic and considerations as opposed to just PC considerations. That said, I am not sure that five sessions gets you from 17th level to the end of a campaign. Not only are there provisions in the DMG for going beyond that, but I don't think PCs tend to level up...

Not sure where you get these amounts, but I can guarantee just from the literature and the like that there are far more than 34 wizards in all of Faerun over 9th level.

You do understand that the cleric also pays gold pieces for all of those spells and they take a long time to cast...right? Yes, in the heat of combat a Wish might not be used. But given the Wish can duplicate a Resurrection, so you have 100 years to revive people, it all but guarantees that all...

It's fine until you reach that level, where it does matter. I know most campaigns don't reach that level, but it seems to me there should be considerations of balance even then.

I don't understand why you feel this way. Are you saying a group is going to be fine spending 10,000 gp and an hour for a Resurrection when a Wish can do it for free for a single action? Really?

So a 14th level transmuter can restore 3d10 years to anyone at no cost. Once per day. At no cost. Did I mention at no cost whatsoever? Does anyone see this as a problem in a campaign setting? How do you ever meet a wizard or noble who is not walking around looking like a 20 year old? Once per...

It has occurred to me that in 5th edition, a paradigm shift has occurred with regard to what was once the pinnacle of the cleric's abilities...raising of the dead. Transmuters of 14th level can now raise dead once per day. This doesn't supplant the cleric, but it basically makes the transmuter...

Actually in RQ (and BRP) you got access to pretty much every skill and it was what you chose to use that mattered. But I found, in playing RQ, that PCs took on ala carte roles that did not mean they all ended up with the same skills. The Lhankor Mhy priest had lots of knowledge-type skills...

Runequest managed to do ala carte just fine.

Tray "greatsword +2" instead of "+2 greatsword"

Er...no D&D has always been about violence, but not about easy or realistic character deaths. Again, that is the purveyance of a system like Runequest, with body part hit points, no levelling, and prevalent critical hits. D&D is about being 10th level and easily surviving a 1000 foot fall...

Not the goal but the risk should be present and should mean something. But it should be rare. You want character death, play Runequest. Not D&D.

Like they say: Those who can't...post.

Exactly! Some people play it right...and some people play it wrong.

I have a feature in my 3e and 5e games called The Touch of Death. Once you've felt death's embrace, it becomes harder and harder to resist it. Each time a PC dies and is brought back, there is an increasing chance the soul will not want to come back...no matter what. It is sort of the god of...