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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 8054865" data-attributes="member: 53980">Funny enough, every time someone has been fired from my job their desk sat untouched for days, usually weeks, like some strange silent memorial. It's almost always our office manager who ends up clearing everything away, and even he usually waits until we're in the process of hiring someone new. It is almost like people are afraid to disturb the "corpse" for fear of being cursed by it. Personally, I'm happy with my setup at work and have no interest in "looting" someone else's desk.In fairness, I was referring to the procedure when raising the dead is not in the cards. If it's possible, we ask the player whether they want the dead character brought back and behave accordingly (it's assumed that the PCs regularly discuss this sort of thing). If someone has a spell that can bring back the dead, and the player of the dead character isn't opposed (many of my players would rather the character remain dead than reincarnate) the spell is cast and the character restored with minimal fuss. Otherwise, the players will try to seek out an NPC who can do so (but such characters are not common in our games, so the PCs may not know anyone who can do this). However, I've played in many campaigns where life restoration magic was banned from PCs and rare amongst NPCs. I recently had my character die in one such campaign. He's a homebrew race that is vaguely like Frankenstein's monster. There are these rare birds with faces in that world that are one of the only common sources of resurrection. However, they only frequent safe areas, and so far we haven't been able to fortify a town sufficiently to pique their interest. My cleric ended up getting absolutely destroyed by flail snails. However, there's a small chance of 'divine intervention' when someone dies, and I lucked out. My character found himself at the gates of the underworld, greeted by shikome. After a bit of discourse, they agreed to look the other way but explained that not all of him would be able to go back. Which is how he spent several game sessions as an undead, floating head. Thankfully, one of the PCs is a brilliant mad scientist, and we came across notes that detailed the process for creating one of my character's kind. After a few very high intelligence checks to riddle out their mysteries, the mad scientist figured out that with a lab and a philosophers stone he could make me a new body. Which entailed a bit more adventuring in order to find those things, but ultimately we did and my character is thankfully alive and full-bodied. However, this method of "resurrection" will only work on my character and only due to the unique circumstances, which I won't be counting on to happen again.Of course, if the player wants the character back but the PCs can't find a means to do so, the only option is to reroll.</blockquote>

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