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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4260471" data-attributes="member: 35909">Raise Dead exists because this is a game.  Played by people.  People who, if they can't get their character raised at some point, will just make a new character anyway.  And if they can't make a new character, I imagine they'd eventually get bored being a spectator and leave the game.  If you don't like people coming backfrom the dead, just ban it.  Some DMs actually prefer keeping the same characters around, instead of a rotating cast of new faces, to have a long-running plot be viable.And your basic premises are wrong.  The gp cost of raise dead and the others is NOT chump change.  Parties that keep wasting money on these spells will have very poor gear for their level, not to mention they won't really get to know the satisfaction of advancing in level if they keep eating that lost one from the spell.Finally, it's only IME, but still.  The people who die in a fight are often the ones doing the most heroic things and trying to keep the other characters safe.  Almost every single death I've seen has been in that kind of framework.  I would never want to discourage people from playing like that.If you don't like putting a gold value on human life, then follow the cue of the DMG variant and instead of costing gold, raise requires special "power components" that are rare and must be adventured for.  Let the dead PC(s) make other characters to help in the expedition, maybe family of the deceased, and turn the tragedy into a chance for a fun sidequest.</blockquote>

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