DM's: How many PC's getting raise-dead'/resurrections in your campaigns?

[rgard]

I voted "None", but it's not because I don't kill them; and it's not because I disallow "death-correcting" spells.

It's because my players don't want their PCs to come back from the dead.

Is that strange?

-- N

It's not that strange. I DM'd a campaign and in one big battle with the BBEG the party's Wiz/Elemental Savant was beheaded (met Mister Vorpal Sword) and the player didn't want to be raised.

I've found that folks who have been playing the game 10+ years tend to leave the character dead.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Emirikol]

In the Spring of 1978 while playing White Box OD&D (PHB arrived at GenCon '78) was the first and last time my group and I allowed Raise Dead. Not only did death 'lose it's sting' but the suspension of disbelief was broken for us. It just didn't fit our collective phantasy. Since then, there has not been a single player who complained at the lack of Raise Dead et al. Not a single one.

That's how we're working now. I used to impose a 10% x.p. penalty for replacement characters, but I've since lowered it to 5%.

The players don't complain..although sometimes it sucks to loose a 'really cool' character

jh

 

[Wombat]

With very rare exceptions, dead is dead.

And if it is in Cyberpunk, parts is parts.

 

[Ciaran]

Resurrection is possible in my campaign, but it hasn't happened yet. So there's no place on the poll that I can vote.

 

[Galethorn]

I voted with the majority (at least for now): 1-3.

In the last several shorter campaigns, up until the most recent, we had no PC deaths (several getting to the negatives, but recovering), but in the last mini-campaign, we lost one PC...twice. Thank goodness somebody could Raise Dead...he almost died again from the poison that killed him initially, after his first raising, but managed the fort save (only barely), and then he got roasted by a mage soon after.