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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shallown" data-source="post: 1366987" data-attributes="member: 1368">I have played in campaigns where, as players, we all agreed that we wouldn't have our characters raised. teh campaignitself was set up to handle this without to big an issue. We never even found out if raising and such was an option we just decided to be grim and gritty about that part.In the campaign I run some characters have been raised twice and that is all they are willing to do. Usually it happens in such a way that they have to make a deal or baragain for it to happen. Such as when the party had gems ready for raises and even a scroll then the cleric got killed. The only person who could use either easily. The Msytic Thurge gave it a go even though he wasn't high enough level to cast the spell from the scroll. Instead of leaving it as a caster check to cast I brought each player in toa room seperately and acted as the God of the Mystic Thurge and asked what they would give up to bring back the cleric. Its amazing the range of offers you get from players, from my own life to the halfing rogue who wouldn't give anything to him but would to his God (the god of Luck) So the God of lucking being a gambling God bought his marker from the original God. That has been hanging over his head ever since.I think Bring characters back is alright as long as it is handled as something more than just having the money and castingthe spell. I think this is big magic that gets the attention of the diety (or their agent) and requires some further bargaining. The spell earns you the audience, more or less, with the Diety (or agent thereof). Makes the decision to come back a little harder and the sacrifice a little greater but also lets you use Raise dead without losing alevel in my game just might have to pay another way.later</blockquote>

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