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<blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 171372" data-attributes="member: 360">Strictly by the rules, getting someone raised takes 500 gp worth of components, and only works if the person to be raised has been dead for less than 1 day/caster level. So no one less than 4th level is going to be raised unless they have powerful (or at least wealthy) friends. Also, if you're far from a large town (and don't have some means of moving much faster than you can on horseback) and don't have a sufficiently powerful cleric with the components in the party, then you probably won't be able to get someone raised, simply because the time limit will expire.If a character has to hire someone else to cast raise dead, then the cost doubles, because at minimum you're hiring a 9th level cleric, which means 9th level * 5 th level spell * 10 gp/spell level = 450 gp. Even if you have the money, though, you'll have to convince the casting cleric that raising this guy is a good idea (more corrupt churches might raise most people for sufficient money, but they'll charge more than standard prices).The other thing o remember, I think, is that 9th level characters are fairly powerful; what's easy for them is not easy for commoners, or even 5th-level characters, so just because the PCs (and similarly medium to high level characters) can be raised most of the time, it doesn't mean that just anyone can.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="drothgery, post: 171372, member: 360"] Strictly by the rules, getting someone raised takes 500 gp worth of components, and only works if the person to be raised has been dead for less than 1 day/caster level. So no one less than 4th level is going to be raised unless they have powerful (or at least wealthy) friends. Also, if you're far from a large town (and don't have some means of moving much faster than you can on horseback) and don't have a sufficiently powerful cleric with the components in the party, then you probably won't be able to get someone raised, simply because the time limit will expire. If a character has to hire someone else to cast raise dead, then the cost doubles, because at minimum you're hiring a 9th level cleric, which means 9th level * 5 th level spell * 10 gp/spell level = 450 gp. Even if you have the money, though, you'll have to convince the casting cleric that raising this guy is a good idea (more corrupt churches might raise most people for sufficient money, but they'll charge more than standard prices). The other thing o remember, I think, is that 9th level characters are fairly powerful; what's easy for them is not easy for commoners, or even 5th-level characters, so just because the PCs (and similarly medium to high level characters) can be raised most of the time, it doesn't mean that just anyone can. [/QUOTE]

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