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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aristotle" data-source="post: 1994129" data-attributes="member: 5885">If the living characters are paying for, or casting themselves, the spells necessary to  bring back their fallen allies 'in character'... then you have to expect their decision on who to use the spell on to be 'in character' as well. You should respect the player's decisions he or she has made for a character just as you would the decisions that player makes as to what spells to memorize, what opponent to attack, or whatever else...Sure, raising the other player character is the easiest thing to do for the game, but sometimes the decisions made in a game mean you have to go about things the hard way. I think the other player should try to understand this. If the PC is relatively new and unknown to the living players and the NPC is a tried and true friend who has saved their lives in the past it would be a crime (IMHO) not to raise the NPC.This is one of the trials of a DM. Rather than arguing with the player of the living character you should be talking to the player of the dead one. If you, as the DM, feel they have gotten a raw deal and deserve a second chance. Ask him or her if they mind making a new character. If they tell you they do and that they want to go on playing their current character, and you feel the current situation warrants allowing the player to keep the character even though it died, then fudge a die roll or come up with some semi-inventive way to allow that character to be restored by other means.</blockquote>

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