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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phlebas" data-source="post: 3779202" data-attributes="member: 23810">I think a lot of this depends on how the players / DM treat raise dead. If its like any other medical procedure, just more expensive, then you're not going to get any impact. If you turn it into a life altering experience then people take it seriously. IMHO i don't think you need to do this with rules (Though i quite like the idea that sometimes something else comes back btw) but with story and Character Developmentexample 1 (IMC). Rogue / Fighter caught by poison trap died. PC had just started taking levels in shadowdancer (would have hit 3rd if she hadn't died...). Party had raise dead scroll so not perceived as an issue until the raise dead scroll went missing, the other rogue spotted that the dead PC didn't cast a shadow and a priest keeping vigil over the body was attacked and drained of strength - the party panicked as to who would have taken the scroll and eventually tracked down the scroll to the dead PC's house were it was being guarded by a shadow of the dead PC in a ring of candles with other shadows trying to steal the scroll.Eventually the PC's defeated the other shadows, persuaded the dead PC's shadow to let them have the scroll, and fought running battles with shadows to get back to the shrine and raise the dead PCLast week the Raised PC regained 3rd level shadowdancer and can now consciously animate her own shadow (my take on the Shadowdancers shadow) and i'm waiting to see how the rest of the group react to her now, especially the priests .....anyhow - one death, one mini-adventure, a life-changing experience for both PC and allies, a nice twist on the PrC and no need to mess around with the rulesExampe 2 (freinds campaign)Warlock died, warlock came back taking new prestige class dedicated to good. Not sure what he saw when he died but he decided not to risk it again..... Player admitted he'd totally changed the character concept after the death but worked with the ref and a bit of retraining to get the right PrC</blockquote>

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