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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grazzt" data-source="post: 5862195" data-attributes="member: 7">I'm honestly good either way. Let death be final with ways to bring back the dead as optional, or make the rules core. Either way I can use or ignore them. I'd imagine there would be less panic and less screaming if the rules for raising the dead are core.Death in my campaign is mostly final in that raise dead magic is a ritual and requires a blood sacrifice (life for a life type stuff); also returning requires a Fort save ala Resurrection Survival from 1e.Death stories:#1- My brother's 1e paladin (rolled fairly, one of the only times I ever saw that happen, and one of the few paladins we ever had in a 1e game).... swallowed by a remorhaz, cut out after it was killed, needed like a 95% or something or less on Res Survival and rolled 100. Dead. Forever. We were all in shock, then laughed and moved on. We still talk about it to this day.#2 - Party is setting up to defeat demonic dragon (DemoDragon from the cartoon actually). Magic-user is preparing magic + amulet for ritual. Dragon breathes lightning at him. Fighter jumps in front of magic-user, absorbs full blast of bolt and dies. Magic-user finishes spell, destroys Demodragon. Fighter's Will (remember those on the back of the 1e character sheets?) said "no resurrection magic" so the party carried his body back to town and laid it to rest.There are several others too. Most of them are memorable for one reason or another. Most are still talked about sometimes today (as I have some of the same players now as I did 20+ years ago).</blockquote>

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