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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 4033441" data-attributes="member: 9213">Perhaps, and this is not a slam against this part of the new system, but IMHO being really hard to kill is just as "unrealistic" as having the revolving door of death. It should be noted that I dont really mind RAISE DEAD spells in my game, because these things usually come with a cost. Not to mention the difficulty of finding, much less meeting with a Cleric of high enough level to cast such a spell. Then there's the problem of convincing the Cleric to cast the spell on said PC. I'd think that for something like that the Cleric would have to commune with is deity to see if thats such a good idea and even if the Cleric is allowed to cast the spell there's still the small matter of procuring the 5,000gp in diamond dust (IIRC) that's needed to cast the spell. Now at higher levels that may not be such a big deal, but at lower levels that's a lot of hoops to jump through. I mean there are people here who are going to go on the attack and say that those are hurdles that I as a DM put in the way of the PC's, but to me these are things that would make a certain type of sense in the game world, where the wealthy and influential might be able to come back from the dead (Vassal: "I thought Lord Varrick was dead?"  Varrick's Major Domo: "Well, yes he was very NEAR death. But not quite dead") but Shleppy the farmer is so far down ladder of influence that he's not even aware that something like that is available. Anyway, back to what I was saying. These new rules make the PC's REALLY hard to kill and honestly I dont mind that. In fact, I plan on implementing some of these rules in my 3.5 game. But these new rules in no way make things more "realistic" it basically just turns the PC's into Warner Brother's cartoon characters in terms of being able to survive the worst kind of beatings. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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