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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 3457212" data-attributes="member: 9789">I'd also like to say that while I understand how the interpretation could come about, I strongly disagree with those who would limit the power of the spell to "the duration of the battle" only.  In other words, I do not believe this spell would only raise the dead just to finish one battle; I have never read the spell's description to mean that, I don't think that makes much sense in the scheme of resurrection spells, and I honestly don't think it's fair.  5000 XP is a HUGE cost.  It may not "mean much to an NPC" from a PC's perspective, but it is still extremely exorbitant.  Isn't the formula for spending XP instead of gold 1 XP per 25 GP?  That would mean that the cost of this spell is in line with casting 5 x true resurrections (normally 25k each).  That certainly seems within the realm of reason for raising your allies to fight again, and nothing really implies to me that they should die again after the spell is over.</blockquote>