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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 6389352" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Looking at the resurrection spell...It leaves you at a major penalty for several days.It fails if you died of old age.If fails if the target has been made into undeadIt requires touch, thus no body, no resurrectionIt's a major pain for the caster if the body's dead more than a year.It fails if the body's been dead more than a century.It fails if the target doesn't want to come backIt doesn't cure magical poisons nor diseases.What this means: Assassinations are going to usually involve taking the body. And then destroying the body. Or giving the body to the person hiring the assassin.Clerics are unlikely to res people dead for a year or more. Getting them motivated to do so is likely to require both hefty personal considerations and knowing the individual is an ally of both the cleric and the cleric's faith.People aren't likely to pay for an unfriendly fellow, either. And, of course, communities don't want dead bodies stored close to hand under normal conditions. (The Inca and the south pacific islanders who did, they mummified them first. Rotting flesh smells horrible.) So, if you don't have the money up front, and can't afford a proper grave (and many graves were rented, not purchased, historically), into the pauper's pit with you. Maybe they will be able to identify your shrouded remains through the decomp products when they raise the money... but you may wind up in the wrong shroud when the medical students and grave robbers get done with you...And, there's a very real possibility that the DMG may have some less visible element penalizing death. Such as, perhaps, a resurrection costing 1d10 years of your lifespan. Live fast, Die often, and death doesn't let you back before age cripples you.</blockquote>

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