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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 4802303" data-attributes="member: 12966">I tailor the death-defying spells to the campaign and the players.In my Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil we've had 12 character deaths.  The first few were, of course, when the party was too low level to bring anyone back (they couldn't cast the spells themselves and they couldn't afford to pay an NPC).  After about 5-6 deaths and players moving on to new PCs, I decided that the discontinuity of the story line due to multiple hero changes was too much.I cut the cost of all death-defying spell components in half.  And I used Andy Collins' rule on how being brought back to life caused a special negative level instead of a real level loss.Of course, RttToEE is a "PC grinder" of the highest order.  Any PC who doesn't die at least once only got there because he ran away from every encounter!  (Okay, it's not quite that bad, but there's no doubt that it's tough.)HTH.</blockquote>