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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 7212983" data-attributes="member: 71699">Something that surprises me is the low rate of death, and very low rate of revivals, in games. I'd expected both to be higher. The sense I am getting is that groups like death to count, so they want low rates of revival, but then they also don't want too much character churn. Especially of characters that make it out of tier 1. (It'd be interesting to capture the levels characters died at! I'd predict mostly low-level.)Yet it seems to me that the game mechanics are set up for higher numbers of both. We have a spell whose sole purpose is preserving bodies for a later Raise Dead. We have five straight up revival spells (not counting wish, or spells that can summon entities that can revive). Per RAW the costs are high, but not overwhelmingly so at the relevant levels. A True Resurrection costs the price of building a Noble Estate with Manor, or running one for seven years. It's about what can be looted from a CR 11-16 treasure horde. But that's the most extreme case. The price of a Raise Dead would run a Guildhall for about 3 months, or make a small dent in the cost of building one. Loot from a CR 0-4 treasure horde could just about cover it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 7212983, member: 71699"] Something that surprises me is the low rate of death, and very low rate of revivals, in games. I'd expected both to be higher. The sense I am getting is that groups like death to count, so they want low rates of revival, but then they also don't want too much character churn. Especially of characters that make it out of tier 1. (It'd be interesting to capture the [I]levels[/I] characters died at! I'd predict mostly low-level.) Yet it seems to me that the game mechanics are set up for higher numbers of both. We have a spell whose sole purpose is preserving bodies for a later Raise Dead. We have [I]five[/I] straight up revival spells (not counting wish, or spells that can summon entities that can revive). Per RAW the costs are high, but not overwhelmingly so at the relevant levels. A True Resurrection costs the price of building a Noble Estate with Manor, or running one for seven years. It's about what can be looted from a CR 11-16 treasure horde. But that's the most extreme case. The price of a Raise Dead would run a Guildhall for about 3 months, or make a small dent in the cost of building one. Loot from a CR 0-4 treasure horde could just about cover it. [/QUOTE]

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