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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 1170057" data-attributes="member: 7464">Good question. Why do cohorts get a better bonus than party members, who you've potentially been with since first level, and who have probably saved your life multiple times? The table is clearly intended to give bonuses based on the amount of love you hold for the subject to be raised. Maybe different types of friend are too difficulult to properly quantify? "No, she really likes my character. I'm a very close friend, not just a 'friend.'" <-- the player of a dead character trying to weasel out bonuses to his save. The flavor of the spell is that it's tremendously difficult to bring just anybody back from the dead. For it to be certain, your relationship has to be very close. That, I think, is intended to be the limiting factor of the spell (whether or not it turned out that way is debateable). A cleric can bring back anybody. If the prince they were escorting suffers a mishap, the cleric can raise him without a problem. He might qualify only as an acquaintance to the bard/sorcerer with Kiss of Life. The spell looks like it's intended to duplicate cinematic scenes - like the kiss that restored Neo at the end of The Matrix.</blockquote>