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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9472631" data-attributes="member: 29398">Most of those can be covered as "revive from physical trauma", which Raise Dead already covers provided the corpse is still mostly whole and Resurrection covers no matter what.  Disease, poison, and a couple of other specific conditions* aren't covered by Raise; for Resurrection I ruled (and it seems consistent with the original intent) that it builds in a Heal effect as well.* - including pregnancy, which isn't covered by either spell; I once had to go in and make a bunch of rulings around that.Which fits in with 5e's easy-and-simple philosophy.Unless you use a well-worded Wish, but that's another can o' worms entirely.Your lot have a different style than ours, then.  Out of every 10 character deaths here I'd guess on average at least 4 come back (or try to); at very low level it's close to 0 in 10 but at high level it's closer to 9 in 10.We put together a chart once of possible reasons why a revival spell didn't work (i.e. a resurrection survival roll was failed) and some of those options are on that chart.Raise Dead won't work against turned-to-stone in any event; you need Stone to Flesh to fix that.I've seen both of these at mid-level; the latter being more common than the former.This seems over the top, but the idea of revival from death carrying some permanent consequences (e.g. the loss of a Con point) is, to me, sound.That can happen whether the dead character is revived or not.  As a player I've more than once had a dead character revived and then sent it down the road anyway because I had an idea for something new.Odds are good that player was going to quit soon anyway, so no net difference there.The one thing I've never seen is a character go through enough death-revival cycles to bump into the hard-line rule that a character cannot do that cycle more times than its original Constitution score.  There's one in a game I play in who is getting close - he's died and come back 11 (!) times and had a starting Con of 14 - but that's by far the closest Ive seen.  And no, he's not mine! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I've yet to meet a player who, on losing a character at mid-level or higher, doesn't at least try to interact with those mechanics to the fullest extent possible.</blockquote>

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