Two things no one mentioned all thread...
One, the gutting of the reincarnation table. You always come back as a humanoid. No more 15th level Berserker Badgers ;_;
Two, 8th level Transmuter Wizards can also bring back the dead iirc, it's the chePest res in the game.
My own thoughts...
RAW returning from the dead is pretty easy. However each time it happens a diamond is destroyed, while it's not that uncommon a stone after a few thousand years they're probably getting a little thin on the ground. In theory this means smaller and smaller diamonds should become valuable enough to use, but D&d seems to run on aristotelian economics so maybe not.
However it's basically impossible to concieve that the diamond trade would not be heavily regulated. In heavy handed regimes private ownership of diamonds would probably be illegal, with exorbitant smuggling being the logical consequence. That might lead to fun scenarios where the PCs bring in a stone to raise Fred the fighter but the priests swap it for a hunk of quartz so they can res St Localboy, who died last week. Hijinks ensue.
Yeah diamond trade wars would be about as high stakes as you can get. Fun times.
Something I wonder about though. If reincarnation is a thing, doesn't that mean that after Joe has been dead for a certain time period that ressurecting him causes someone, somewhere to drop dead? Is this moral?
