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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 3345264" data-attributes="member: 10177">Well, the crossbow analogy isn't factual to begin with.As for the Warlord, they tried. His soul said no, he wanted to stay dead. You want reasons as to why he wanted to stay dead? Use your DMing power of creativity.Here is one that is "real". He has caused enough death in his life and he doesn't want his soul tainted with any more death's. Plus his death will also hasten the end of the war and ultimately prevent more deaths than his returning and keeping the war going.Here is another "real" one. The love of his life died long ago and refused to come back to life. He is now ready to join her, let someone else carry on in his place, he has plenty of capable replacements.Here is another one: He has lost many good friends in many of the battles over his career, many loved ones. He is with them again and is content to wait for his currently living friends and loved ones to follow him into death.How do I know these are "real"? These are slightly altered reasons my Grandfather gave last October when he refused treatment for his heart attack and told us why he wanted to die. The doctors would likely have saved him if he had accepted treatment. He was so determined and committed to his decision he never wavered for the 4 very painful days it took him to die.So there are plenty of "realistic" reasons why Raise Dead and Ressurections would not work. I don't remember reading a rule that says unwilling recipients of these spells come back against their will.  Only in the case of an evil cleric raising someone would they force someone unwilling to come back, and even then the recipient got to make a save.Sure, there are certain rules or game elements that need better explanations or revisions, but not everyone wants to come back to life when they die.So that is why Raise Dead and Ressurections are available, but not everyone is coming back to life. They are happy to be in the "afterlife", which everyone has plenty of proof to believe exists in a D&D world.So I leave it up to the choice of the players, or if I have further need of an NPC. Otherwise they choose to stay in the afterlife.Simple.</blockquote>

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