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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Stew" data-source="post: 9404400" data-attributes="member: 23484">REINCARNATIONOne implication of the new Divine Intervention for Clerics, which now allows castings of Raise Dead without material components in a single action, is that the Druid equivalent Reincarnation becomes even further sidelined than it was in 2014. That's a shame -- it's a fun idea for a spell that could lead to some great in-game consequences, but I don't think it will ever get used (as I discussed <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/reincarnation-thoughts-and-problems.690860/" target="_blank">here</a>). In 2014, the material component was 1000gp (not 500, as for Raise Dead), and it was a surer dead. The only meaningful limitation on Raise Dead was that you needed the body to be complete -- as in Highlander, if you lost your head, that was it. But generally, monsters don't go around taking trophies from PC corpses. If they did... Then maybe Reincarnation would become a better spell? In any case, this is just speculation. They might have solved it by re-writing the spell in PHB2024, but I am not hopeful. As it is, a consequence-free raise dead further marginalizes the fun possibilities of Reincarnation.</blockquote>