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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Varianor Abroad" data-source="post: 1067990" data-attributes="member: 12425">Hi there! For the record, I thought I'd repost part of Monte's Design Diary that *mentions* death and then look at the math for permanently bringing someone back. Here's the 3/21/03 entry: Look at the last sentence. That's the relevant one.Now, as to the math. The spell raise the dead (lesser) is available to someone who can cast 7th level Complex spells. It has a Positive Energy and truename descriptor. (You must have a truename to have it cast on you.) Any 13th level magister, 13th level greenbond or caster-who-can-cast-7th-level-simple-spells-and-took-Complex-Spell (7th level) has access to it. (Diminished lesser raise the dead has only a 50% chance of success. You only get diminished spells if you have access to the regular version, so let's just assume that the 7th level version is being cast.)So it's a 7th level spell. Spells for Hire, p.136 AU gives us the cost which we should assume is for a single casting. Raise the dead must be cast on 7 consecutive days. So that's seven castings. The cost is caster level x 70 gp for a 7th level spell.13x7x7=4459 gp.But wait, we're not done. Each casting requires a 500 gp pearl. That's another 3500 gp. (The spell specifically says one pearl is required per casting.)So you have to spend (4459+3500=) 7959 gp. Probably reasonable for the person approached to round up to 8000 gp. Please reread 171, Bringing Back the Dead. Here's a few choice quotes: It's not quite as simple as saying "I spend the money" if you apply the rules. In fact, it's almost the basis for an entire adventure! Heck, my PCs already have scars. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I've run 2 sessions so far....</blockquote>

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