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<blockquote data-quote="Mon" data-source="post: 4803405" data-attributes="member: 71673"><p>For years, we've had a house rule that works well for us. Well, a few house rules that work in conjunction actually.</p><p></p><p>1. Casting any spell that revives the dead must begin within one round per spell level of the death occurring, or else the soul has moved beyond the spell's reach on the journey to the afterlife.</p><p></p><p>2. <em>Gentle repose</em> counts for the above purpose, but it only keeps the soul around for its duration so that more powerful spells can be used later to actually do the raising.</p><p></p><p>3. Instead of losing a level, raised characters gain a negative level which cannot be removed until the character gains his next level (we NEVER have actual level loss in our games... but negative levels are permanent until removed).</p><p></p><p>4. If it is too late to raise someone, and you have the wherewithal, you can take a trip to the outer planes and <em>try</em> to get the soul back from the guardian of the dead on whichever plane it ended up on. This works up to the spells RAW time limit.</p><p></p><p>We find this situation works pretty well. We can have major NPC deaths as plot devices (nobody could reach the king in time...), AND have a get-out-of-jail-(almost)-free card for those accidental PC deaths.</p><p></p><p>Rules 1 and 4 we've used for a looong time. Since 2e days. Rules 2 and 3 were added later.</p><p></p><p>Just my $0.02</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mon, post: 4803405, member: 71673"] For years, we've had a house rule that works well for us. Well, a few house rules that work in conjunction actually. 1. Casting any spell that revives the dead must begin within one round per spell level of the death occurring, or else the soul has moved beyond the spell's reach on the journey to the afterlife. 2. [I]Gentle repose[/I] counts for the above purpose, but it only keeps the soul around for its duration so that more powerful spells can be used later to actually do the raising. 3. Instead of losing a level, raised characters gain a negative level which cannot be removed until the character gains his next level (we NEVER have actual level loss in our games... but negative levels are permanent until removed). 4. If it is too late to raise someone, and you have the wherewithal, you can take a trip to the outer planes and [I]try[/I] to get the soul back from the guardian of the dead on whichever plane it ended up on. This works up to the spells RAW time limit. We find this situation works pretty well. We can have major NPC deaths as plot devices (nobody could reach the king in time...), AND have a get-out-of-jail-(almost)-free card for those accidental PC deaths. Rules 1 and 4 we've used for a looong time. Since 2e days. Rules 2 and 3 were added later. Just my $0.02 [/QUOTE]
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