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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 1996869" data-attributes="member: 2486">Granted, but it seems to me as though that this isn't a simple case of that.  If a PC refused to allow a new PC into the party, repeatedly ignored plot hooks and caused the campaign to grind to a halt through role-playing, then I would call for "constructive metagaming".  This isn't the case.  The player wants his dead PC resurrected, and he's going to throw a hissy-fit if that doesn't happen.  Personally, I regard mandating your character to be resurrected as a condition of friendship as a little childish and more than a little petulant.  Would you hold this supposed friendship as a tool for emotional blackmail, if, say a player wanted the DM not to have the PC killed?  What about if he demands a more than fair share of the loot?  What about insistence on a particular magic item?  Or that the party do something his way?  Using friendship as leverage to affect things in-game I find distinctly unsettling.  So using the "friendship should triumph every time" argument can be a little dubious.   Absolutely.  However, for everyone to have fun means that one player can't just hold out and make certainly unreasonable impositions upon the party.  It's a question of what the PCs can be reasonably expected to do to ensure everyone has fun.  Letting a character into the group through "constructive metagaming" is reasonable.  Throwing limited party resources at a single PC because otherwise he'll whinge isn't.   Right.  So was Lenin <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> .Seriously, I don't think you should intervene in this situation.  Having the PC raised is not critical to ensuring the campaign moves along, and heavy-handed intervention is likewise to inflame tempers one way or the other.  Your best bet, as has been cleverly pointed out, is to put in a side-quest for a resurrection scroll or something.  Better yet, have the (good?) NPC regret that he was ressed instead of the other guy and insist that they take the quest: subtle "constructive metagaming" by the DM without blatantly interfering with player (and PC) choice.</blockquote>

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