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<blockquote data-quote="Keith" data-source="post: 749057" data-attributes="member: 10752">That is an interesting point about the cost.&nbsp; First that there is a price attached, and second that it is specifically a diamond.&nbsp; So, two things happen: the rich can avoid death while the poor cannot, and second, diamond miners and sellers now rule (figuratively and literally).&nbsp; There is no way anyone who is selling life after death is in any position other than total control.&nbsp; They almost rule the world now, and all they provide are engagement and wedding rings.So now there is an object than can raise the dead, and an object subject to supply and demand, with a limited supply.&nbsp; Is it even possible for such an item to be worth only 500 GP?&nbsp; Absolutely not; it is completely impossible.&nbsp; Nations would rise and fall over the wealthy's collections of such gems.&nbsp; Everything else would be judged relative to them- they would never be measured against mere gold.&nbsp; The whole notion of the cost of this spell is completely untenable.As for the other result, a society where the rich can return from death and the poor cannot, endorsed by the religious authority?&nbsp; I think you could count on a bit of a Reformation occurring, to say the least.&nbsp; My point is mainly that this issue does not unbalance the game because of the very limited scope in which we usually play.&nbsp; Level loss frightens us as players, certainly, but it has nothing to do with whole cultures facing the reversal of death.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Keith, post: 749057, member: 10752"] That is an interesting point about the cost. First that there is a price attached, and second that it is specifically a diamond. So, two things happen: the rich can avoid death while the poor cannot, and second, diamond miners and sellers now rule (figuratively and literally). There is no way anyone who is selling life after death is in any position other than total control. They almost rule the world now, and all they provide are engagement and wedding rings. So now there is an object than can raise the dead, and an object subject to supply and demand, with a limited supply. Is it even possible for such an item to be worth only 500 GP? Absolutely not; it is completely impossible. Nations would rise and fall over the wealthy's collections of such gems. Everything else would be judged relative to them- they would never be measured against mere gold. The whole notion of the cost of this spell is completely untenable. As for the other result, a society where the rich can return from death and the poor cannot, endorsed by the religious authority? I think you could count on a bit of a Reformation occurring, to say the least. My point is mainly that this issue does not unbalance the game because of the very limited scope in which we usually play. Level loss frightens us as players, certainly, but it has nothing to do with whole cultures facing the reversal of death. [/QUOTE]

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