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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jrowland" data-source="post: 6389313" data-attributes="member: 94389">one thing DMs can do is to change the cost of the diamond:Don't like "cheap" rez spells? Make them essentially bankrupt the party, ...How much does it cost to rez? everything.with varying shades down: 1/2 party wealth, bankrupt a player, 1/2 player wealth, etc.I personally do a two pronged approach: First, the costassumes a flawless diamond of that price, so yeah, there are plenty of 300gp diamonds for revivify, but flawless are hard to come by, the tiny little buggers. Easy enough to have one made or to purchase, but you have to plan ahead.Second, it has to be inscribed with magical runes sacred to a) The God/Demon/Entity's realm that the characters spirit is now inhabiting  and b) The cleric performing such a service is no more than 1 alignment step away.What this means is that a cleric can just rez on-the-fly Joe the MacGuffin when he dies unless they planned for it, but perhaps the Bishop at the church he intended can, so narratively things like NPC death can happen. Especially when the NPC is an enemy they want to question...no rez and torture for you unless your really prepared. It also means that PPCs have to plan ahead for death and resurrection and it becomes a limited resource: How much money/game time do they want to spend? Do they want to be 1 step away from the clerics alignment? and so on. I've found that many players choose to forget the insurance and look forward to a new PC.</blockquote>

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