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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 984128" data-attributes="member: 707">Well, reading this thread has certainly been an eye-opener!  It's interesting to see how different people play this game.Myself, as a player and as a DM--but mostly as a player--I'm against anything that makes Raise Dead tougher than it already is.  I invest hours into my characters.  I write short stories with them.  I search for just the right picture for them over the Internet.  My enjoyment of the game stems from seeing them grow and develop.  To a lesser degree, this is the same if I'm a DM shepherding a group of PCs through my world.Raise Dead already hurts due to the level loss.  Now it hurts even more.  And the only people who are really hurt--people like me who would rather keep their PCs than roll up a new one.Someone earlier in this thread said this change would "stimulate role-playing."  I can't disagree more.  Because if I know that in a game as deadly as D&D I won't be able to play my character for more than a few levels, I'm not going to put the time and emotion investiture in that I would have before.  I'm going to create a combat-twink.Or continue to play 3.0. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Edit:  there, their, they're</blockquote>