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<blockquote data-quote="Griffith Dragonlake" data-source="post: 3940051" data-attributes="member: 40379">In the Summer of 1978 (pre-AD&amp;D PHB) I banned raise dead and resurrection with the approval of most of my players in the game at the time.&nbsp; Since then, very few new players have complained at the loss.In the Summer of 1987 I brought back raise dead and resurrection but made them empathic and vampiric.&nbsp; Meaning that each spell required another person (victim or volunteer) to give up their life in exchange.&nbsp; It was only one occassion (c. 1996) that a PC volunteered to lay down their life.&nbsp; It was for a much beloved NPC semi-retired paladin nobleman.&nbsp; However, the duke failed his resurrection % roll (or system shock, I forget) and thus I ruled that the PC knight did not lose his life.In 1994 I introduced the pacifict PC class who could cast non-empathic cure and raise spells.&nbsp; However, I boosted the spell levels and kept the non-empathic versions limited to the pacifists.Today in 3x, Resurrection is 8th level and Raise Dead is 7th level.&nbsp; There is the non-empathic version available for pacifists and the the empathic/vampiric for priests of Hades/Pluto and evil necromancers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Griffith Dragonlake, post: 3940051, member: 40379"] In the Summer of 1978 (pre-AD&D PHB) I banned raise dead and resurrection with the approval of most of my players in the game at the time. Since then, very few new players have complained at the loss. In the Summer of 1987 I brought back raise dead and resurrection but made them empathic and vampiric. Meaning that each spell required another person (victim or volunteer) to give up their life in exchange. It was only one occassion (c. 1996) that a PC volunteered to lay down their life. It was for a much beloved NPC semi-retired paladin nobleman. However, the duke failed his resurrection % roll (or system shock, I forget) and thus I ruled that the PC knight did not lose his life. In 1994 I introduced the pacifict PC class who could cast non-empathic cure and raise spells. However, I boosted the spell levels and kept the non-empathic versions limited to the pacifists. Today in 3x, Resurrection is 8th level and Raise Dead is 7th level. There is the non-empathic version available for pacifists and the the empathic/vampiric for priests of Hades/Pluto and evil necromancers. [/QUOTE]

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