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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 5867160" data-attributes="member: 32536">You really need to look beyond "how expensive do we make this spell?" in order to find actual solutions to these problems. The biggest problem with the Raise Dead spell that Mr. Cook doesn't even consider changing is the simple fact that it completely undoes death.I think I've mentioned this before, but the reasons people want to have raise dead spells and the sources of campaign problems for raise dead spells are two separate issues. People like raising the dead because it lets them to continue playing with a character who died. People dislike raise dead spells because they undo the story aspects of death. The simple solution is to both let the character come back but not undo the story aspects of death. In other words, a character who was raised from the dead is still, in some sense, dead.Raise Dead spells should grant a temporary reprieve from death and are ultimately more akin to necromancy, rather than "curing" death and being equivalent to healing magic. A character who died once is doomed to return to death. They become detached from the reality of the living. After the campaign is done, they will simply return to the land of the dead, rather than live a long full life and retire happily like the party members who didn't die will. It doesn't change many gameplay mechanics, but it makes the story work a lot better.</blockquote>