How often are PCs raised?

[Quasqueton]

What percentage of your PCs* have been revived** in a D&D campaign?

For this poll, only answer for campaigns with the "default" level of magic and spells.


* As a DM, "your PCs" refers the PCs in your game. As a Player, "your PCs" refers to your personal characters.

**"Revived" refers to any stock/core PH method of coming back from the dead, like raise dead, reincarnate, resurrection, and true resurrection.

Quasqueton

 

[freebfrost]

Hard to give an accurate figure on this one, since a number of my campaigns do not allow for resurrection-type magic, but other one's do.

I'd say maybe 20% based on the frequency of use in higher-level games.

 

[Quasqueton]

For purposes of this poll, only answer for campaigns with the "default" D&D amount of magic and spells.

Quasqueton

 

[drothgery]

I voted 10% because that was the lowest option, but I've never lost a PC who was in a position that he could be raised (my Scout 7 in an Eberron game died two weeks ago, but since a mind flayer ate his brains, there was no bringing him back); almost did, but that turned out to be a DM math error

 

[Elf Witch]

In the two and half years of playing in our campaign we have had three characters come back from the dead.

 

[the Jester]

I voted 30% overall... but it's almost always the high-level pcs getting brought back, and very rarely the low-level ones.

 

[Wombat]

I voted 10% because that was the lowest option

Same here.

We rarely have games that go above having 8th level characters, so coming back from the dead is rarely an option, especially as they spend their money on trinkets.

OTOH, since I rarely use the core rules straight up, and almost always remove resurrection as an option, the whole point becomes rather moot.

 

[Crothian]

Less then 10%. In the 5 years of d20, I've seen one person have their character raised.

 

[palleomortis]

I only do it becuase that means I can keep playing and not have to stop and make a million new characters and a new campaign.

 

[kanithardm]

I am the most vile RBDM and thusforth 100% because i kill them all.