Raise Dead Issues

[Wraithdrit]

Is there any roll for whether an item is available on not?

- Wraith

 

[sithramir]

I don't know if theres something official but I usually do random 50% rolls to see if they can easily find things.

I'd suggest looking over all the spell components for spells 4th and up. There are a few that you can't just cast all the time for free. Stoneskin is great but costs 250 or 500 gp's of diamond dust a shot. Stuff like that is important to keep wizards and clerics in balance. I'd say go with having the npc's having diamond dust if they have that spell. I also believe diamond dust is needed for another clerical spell but the name eludes me.

 

[Wraithdrit]

I'm going through and making a spreadsheet of all the spells 1-6th level that require components outside what can be found in a component pouch.

Thus I can give npcs the appropriate material treasure.

 

[jasper]

WRAITH I post once the spell cost sheet here it. listed the xp and gp cost. However I have not updated to 3.5.

Now it up to you to decide it there 5K diamonds in the town. I would place 2 so they can raise the guy and go back to dungeon. If the lose more than one more npc and have not gotten a 5k diamond in the adventure. Well you do bury your dead and recruit new pcs.

 

[Tiberius]

I'm going through and making a spreadsheet of all the spells 1-6th level that require components outside what can be found in a component pouch.

Thus I can give npcs the appropriate material treasure.

You can save yourself some trouble by looking at the by-class spell listings in the 3.5 PHB. If the spell requires something atypical (like XP expenditure, odd material components, etc), there will be an appropriate superscript character telling you so.

-Tiberius

 

[Tabarnak Smokeblower]

from 500gp to 5,000gp?

Any idea why the component's price increased tenfold? I mean, it now represents about 10% of a character's wealth (assuming CL ~10)! For a single Raise Dead! Anyone think that's too much?

TS

 

[Staffan]

Re: from 500gp to 5,000gp?

Any idea why the component's price increased tenfold?

Because they wanted raises to hurt. In 3.0, even a True Resurrection only costs something like 7 kgp, and that's pretty darn cheap for being brought back to life with no lasting problems.

 

[VictorSim]

An often used trick in my campaigns to get rare material components is for a 7th level or higher Cleric to cast Lesser Planar Ally to summon up a Mercane (see Manual of the Planes) who are interplanar merchants of magical items and components.

Victor

 

[Wraithdrit]

Tiberius,

Thats how I am looking up which need components. What I am listing is WHAT those components are, so I can quickly build NPC wizard/cleric treasure list of components.

Victor,
Thats awesome... I'll have to mention that to my players.

- Wraith

 

[Tiberius]

Tiberius,

Thats how I am looking up which need components. What I am listing is WHAT those components are, so I can quickly build NPC wizard/cleric treasure list of components.

- Wraith

Ah, ok. I'm not sure why, but I had it in my head that you were going through and checking the spell entries one by one to find the spells with odd components.

-Tiberius