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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ValhallaGH" data-source="post: 3064108" data-attributes="member: 41187">Quest.  Forge a pact with an extremely powerful extra-planar entity (demon, god, insanely powerful pre-human creature) who will raise the dead.  The revived comes back at the same power level they died in, usually where the revival is occurring, unless the party really messed up the deal.If the party is unwilling or unable to find such an entity and forge a deal then it's time to roll up a new character.If you're players are putting a lot of effort into their characters then they'll probably be really upset when those characters die by non-story means.  As such, you may want to go a more Final Fantasy route, where some deaths can be risen from (by say, spending Life Points) while other deaths are final.I'd recommend that spending a Life Point takes two minutes and the character is concious, disabled and exhausted at -9 hp once he finishes.  This should be long enough that dying in combat removes the character from the fight but not from the story entirely.  As DM, you are final arbiter of when a character can and can't spend Life Points.The number of Life Points given, and when (or if) heroes get new ones, is dependant upon the desired rate of "he's only mostly dead" moments.Then you can ditch the various ressurection spells and bring them in only as one-time plot devices such as raising a mighty champion of ages past to help defeat the super-demi-lich that walked into the bar and started slaying the nation.</blockquote>

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