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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 6877895" data-attributes="member: 12377">You know, just today I was thinking about stealing a death rule from 13th Age and converting it to 5e:
When you cast raise dead, add up the total number of times you have cast raise dead plus the number of times the recipient has been the target of raise dead. Upon casting the spell, you gain that many levels of exhaustion, and so does the recipient upon returning to life. If this would result in 6 levels of exhaustion (death), then either the spell fails, or the caster dies and the recipient returns to life with 5 levels of exhaustion (the caster chooses which).
The implication is that spellcasters who are capable of casting raise dead are reticent to do so because they can only cast it a limited number of times. Likewise, the more times you've been raised the worse it is, so there's a lot of incentive not to die too much. Finally, the exhaustion means you'll either be spending days in recovery, or somebody has to blow through a lot of greater restoration spell slots to get you back on your feet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="77IM, post: 6877895, member: 12377"] You know, just today I was thinking about stealing a death rule from 13th Age and converting it to 5e: [indent] When you cast [I]raise dead[/I], add up the total number of times you have cast [I]raise dead[/I] plus the number of times the recipient has been the target of [I]raise dead[/I]. Upon casting the spell, you gain that many levels of exhaustion, and so does the recipient upon returning to life. If this would result in 6 levels of exhaustion (death), then either the spell fails, or the caster dies and the recipient returns to life with 5 levels of exhaustion (the caster chooses which). [/indent] The implication is that spellcasters who are capable of casting [I]raise dead[/I] are reticent to do so because they can only cast it a limited number of times. Likewise, the more times you've been [I]raised[/I] the worse it is, so there's a lot of incentive not to die too much. Finally, the exhaustion means you'll either be spending days in recovery, or somebody has to blow through a lot of [I]greater restoration[/I] spell slots to get you back on your feet. [/QUOTE]

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