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<blockquote data-quote="Gnarlo" data-source="post: 88913" data-attributes="member: 2995">Lingering pain and suffering is not a question from the official rules anyhow: &quot;Upon completion of the spell, the creature is immediately restored to full hit points, vigor, and health&quot;&nbsp; Italics mine.&nbsp; Of course, in your campaign YMMV. Statements of the trauma of the hostages at being killed and resurrected may not apply in his campaign. No where is it stated that the resurrected suffer from lingering, psychic turmoil and horror, the trauma to the soul is accounted for in the loss of the level or the drop in Con as the case may be; any lingering resentment or even memory of the event is to be determined per DM's judgement. As before, YMMV. Something I see as being missed in this discussion is the question of campaign background. It's all fine and well to debate whether something is negligence or manslaughter or even a crime or moral by modern society viewpoints and law, but what is the society like in your campaign, Cloudgatherer? Is it a lawful, well protected society where the knights are responsible for the commoners well being, like Camelot England? Is it a frontier settlement where 8 girls were killed by orcs the previous week and not able to have easily available resurrections? Is it a crushing, early feudal society where commoners are chattel and property, and the worst they could get charged with would be vandalism or destruction of property (not likely, as the villian thought hostage taking was a good idea, but still something to consider).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gnarlo, post: 88913, member: 2995"] Lingering pain and suffering is not a question from the official rules anyhow: "Upon completion of the spell, the creature is immediately restored to full hit points, [I]vigor, and health[/I]" Italics mine. Of course, in your campaign YMMV. Statements of the trauma of the hostages at being killed and resurrected may not apply in his campaign. No where is it stated that the resurrected suffer from lingering, psychic turmoil and horror, the trauma to the soul is accounted for in the loss of the level or the drop in Con as the case may be; any lingering resentment or even memory of the event is to be determined per DM's judgement. As before, YMMV. Something I see as being missed in this discussion is the question of campaign background. It's all fine and well to debate whether something is negligence or manslaughter or even a crime or moral by modern society viewpoints and law, but what is the society like in your campaign, Cloudgatherer? Is it a lawful, well protected society where the knights are responsible for the commoners well being, like Camelot England? Is it a frontier settlement where 8 girls were killed by orcs the previous week and [I]not[/i] able to have easily available resurrections? Is it a crushing, early feudal society where commoners are chattel and property, and the worst they could get charged with would be vandalism or destruction of property (not likely, as the villian thought hostage taking was a good idea, but still something to consider). [/QUOTE]

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