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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorgon Zee" data-source="post: 6219905" data-attributes="member: 75787">One thing I passionately hated about 3.5 was the easy resurrection. I recall once chatting to a friend outside the convention room where he had taken a break for the table and someone came out and told them his character had died and been resurrected and he said OK and kept on chatting to me.In 4e, which I liked much more as a system, it was even easier; totally rotating door. So I made the decision that my characters would never come back. Ever. Hated the easy resurrection.So, for me, the 13th Age version seems a very good one. I want death in combat to be a serious worry; not one that essentially makes people ask "how much does this cost me?" like it does in 3e and 4e. The solution presented works well for my goal: Death should be character-affecting, something to be scared of, and something that cannot be trivialized by any other affect in the game. As a bonus, it's nice to have actual rules to explain why characters ever die (as opposed to 3e and 4e's "because ummm they don't want to come back?")I do not care about a style of play that has infinite life characters or one that has players who replace characters by new ones that are identical. I simply don't run those games. If you like the former, just ignore this rule and assign a simple cost to res. If you like the latter, just remove the spell. So for me, yes, this is the best approach to resurrection I have seen since AD&D. Actually I refer it to the AD&D version as it's less easy to game and wish away the consequences. Win.</blockquote>

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