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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 6085826" data-attributes="member: 2518">I don't. But when you are already removing the challenge from the game by not wanting the PCs to die and when they do provide very easy means of resurrection then you can also go all the way and make sure that the PCs don't die in the first place. As I said, that way is much less hassle for practically the same outcome.You should read the OP again. The primary concern of the OP is to resurrect the dwarf and thus he invented this situation. It didn't evolve in game, it appeared because he wants to negate the outcome of the last combat. And having to come on a online forum and ask for help to rationalize your resurrection ritual is in my eyes "hassle".That is just my experience with many DMs. The plot already stands and it is pretty much impossible to fail it except in the last battle. A TPK? You get captured instead. Now you have to escape and the plot continues like normal.You fail to enlist the aid of the Genie lord? Doesn't matter, you can still continue.Such things are not "failures" in my eyes, yet those are the things people come up with when talking about alternatives to death.That would be one way to play, I guess - it would give D&D a sort of competitive dimension, with the early stages of a campaign something like the round-robin heats before non-finalists and then non-winners suffer elimination. But it doesn't seem very viable for the more recreational approach to RPGing that I suspect is closer to the norm.</blockquote>No, either he makes a new character or the group searches for a way to resurrect him. The difference is that I would not create such an opportunity just around the corner when it becomes necessary. Depending on the world finding a way to raise the death can be found rather easily or it is nearly impossible. But such opportunities do not simply appear out of thin air just because a PC died during combat.[/QUOTE]

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