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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DSRilk" data-source="post: 4114760" data-attributes="member: 35212">I wouldn't approach raise dead, and haven't for over a decade.  I thoroughly dislike the idea.  Basically, the problem is the game system is designed like a board game where pieces can be eliminated while at the same time assigning each player the job of only one piece on the board.  Thus either the game ends for that player when his piece is eliminated or you have to find some way to bring him back.  The game system uses raise dead and its ilk for this purpose.  Dead?  No problem, find a priest, bring some coin, and you're back up and running.  This new fluff doesn't make any difference at all, imo.  Only the VERY rich could afford it before, and even in previous rules it stated that some people didn't wish to come back, so it was commonly always PCs alone that usually got rez'd.  The problem for me has always been that ANYONE died and came back.  To me, the resurrection of ANYONE is a world altering event.To address the issue of piece elimination in my game, you simply can't die unless you tell me your character wants to risk his life for the task.  Instead, there are far more insidious and interesting things that happen when you hit -10 hp (or whatever marker we happened to be using that campaign).  This method eliminates the problem without the weirdness of any kind of resurrection.  There are many good threads on this type of approach, so I'll speak on it no further here.Given all this, I suspect that I'll handle raise dead the exact same way this version.  That said, the idea of rituals appeals to me.  Rituals, as I understand them, might be a place where resurrection makes sense in my concept of the world.  Bad guy conjuring some horrible ritual in order to bring back a dead god, ancient evil, or his long dead master.  In short, it's a plot device, not a way to fix a game issue.</blockquote>

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