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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 4129069" data-attributes="member: 36160">Easy question! The effort isn't the same. This is a change from previous editions.Without house rules, there are only a few conditions where some cleric actually in possession of both a corpse and a sufficient quantity of diamonds can't raise (or resurrect) the body.To the best of my knowledge, these are:1) The person isn't actually dead. They're alive somewhere, Magic Jar'd, simulacrum'd, or otherwise magicked out the yin-yang already.2) The person died of old age.3) The person died of death magic -- this can still be circumvented, but it takes even more mojo.4) The person doesn't want to come back.Rules as writ, that's it. That doesn't describe a large portion of the population (of death) -- most dead folk in a D&D campaign, given the cash, probably didn't die from death magic and would probably like to keep living, please. Thus cash is the limit; this means that those with sufficient wealth logically and necessarily must live foreverish.4e takes that list, and appends to it one very important additional item:5) They're not special enough. Before you check any of the other options, check this one! Most people aren't special enough; only explore the effects of immortality on society if you decide that everyone has enough fate to keep coming back.</blockquote>