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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Madeiner" data-source="post: 5216952" data-attributes="member: 61624">I wasn't sure whether to post this here on in "Plots and places" sections...Anyway, here's something happened in my game.We are in a city, in fantasy/low-steampunk setting, Dnd 3.5 (pathfinder)An npc guard was found guilty of treason and put to death.One of the players contested the laws, saying that the soldier didn't deserve death for what he had done (the soldier actually got tricked by a demon into disobeying orders), but the laws were the laws.The players asked if there were any laws against resurrection, to which i didn't really think about. The mayor said that techically there weren't any laws against that, since no one actually ever reached a level high enough to resurrect anyone. (Post-apocalyptic world)I resolved this because the soldier actually wanted to pay for what he had done, and so asked not to be resurrected.However, this made me think.In a world where magic exists, where people know about the possibility of resurrection since they've read it on some book, one would guess the laws would reflect the possibility of someone being raised from the dead after a death sentence.What would you think government laws would say in such a case? Would it be logically illegal to raise someone after he was put to death, or would good governmens for example allow this as a second chance? What if this transform death penalty into a 5000gp fine to pay the costs of resurrection?</blockquote>

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