DonTadow
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I have managed to balance out the spell somewhat with the phb to the same price. Check out my thread http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=131644
Thomas5251212 said:I think I have to agree with the Ranger on this one. Among other things, I doubt many EL calculations are even based on the assumption a character will die in the course of the battle; it's quite easy to rarely have it occur, and then usually from dumb luck. Most battles are balanced on resource consumption, and using the spells to revitalize someone, and then the healing magic to get him back to a useful level (a 12th level fighter is almost useless to bring back into most EL 10-14 encounters at 20 hit points; the first time anything hits him or casts a spell at him he'll go right back down, if not die again) is, itself, resource consumption.
As an example, over the run of my D&D campaign, which went up to about 16th level (and therefore had about 45 sessions) I beleive there were a grand total of about 7-10 fatalities, or one every 4-6 sessions; better than half of those occured at levels low enough where the EoM resurrection spells would not have been doable.
A far bigger issue is the reliability of resurrection magic, and that's just as big an issue with standard D&D magic as EoM.
DonTadow said:Your arguments were well said and you convinced me on teh lower revive I believe i will change this and allow the lower revive to be cast without the limitations of the other two higher revives. I still want to keep the higher resserections as a bit more important campaign wise and more for story context. The lower revive does make sense to not to put so many penalities on.
When you compare EOM resserection to the PHB they do the same thing except for the cost factor. Once you make them the same cost they are identical.Thomas5251212 said:Well, there are certainly some campaign impact issue with higher order resurrections in D&D; I haven't looked to see if EoM mimics them, but if it does, I'm not sure making them expensive really solves the worst problems.