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<blockquote data-quote="molonel" data-source="post: 3343902" data-attributes="member: 10412">And unless you run a Monty Haul world, not everyone has 25,000 gp diamonds sitting around. It will encourage enemies to take, and possibly even keep whole the bodies of powerful foes after they kill them. For ransom, for extortion, for the threat of having the body raised and the man or woman tortured alive. It also allows for different story arcs. In the Rome series, imagine how things might have been different if the King of the Gauls had been executed before Ceasar at the ceremony, and then after his body was thrown away and discarded like so much trash, they were able to bring him back. It works, symbolically, whether he stayed dead or is brought back. It's totally a matter of flavor and choice.I'm all for different types of stories and plotlines, but acting like anyone who plays it by the rules is turning D&amp;D into a video game is rather pretensious, IMNSHO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="molonel, post: 3343902, member: 10412"] And unless you run a Monty Haul world, not everyone has 25,000 gp diamonds sitting around. It will encourage enemies to take, and possibly even keep whole the bodies of powerful foes after they kill them. For ransom, for extortion, for the threat of having the body raised and the man or woman tortured alive. It also allows for different story arcs. In the Rome series, imagine how things might have been different if the King of the Gauls had been executed before Ceasar at the ceremony, and then after his body was thrown away and discarded like so much trash, they were able to bring him back. It works, symbolically, whether he stayed dead or is brought back. It's totally a matter of flavor and choice. I'm all for different types of stories and plotlines, but acting like anyone who plays it by the rules is turning D&D into a video game is rather pretensious, IMNSHO. [/QUOTE]

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