Where have all the heroes gone?

[Rel]

I don't think that would be economically viable.

But the cool part is that you only need a partially intact corpse for raise dead. So you can eat the goats for dinner and then Raise them from their leftovers the next morning!

 

[Galethorn]

I don't think the goats would choose to be ressurected if you killed them, but who knows.

Now, if they didn't mind being killed and mostly eaten, and you had a friend that was a truly inept jeweler (i.e. appraise that tiny piece of diamond dust as being worth however many GP it needs to be), then it would be viable.

Personally, I'd just go with casting Stone to Flesh on boulders to feed my family. After all, 70 cubic feet of meat--with a pinch of dirt and drop of blood as the only things you have to invest--is a lot[/i]...about 600 pounds, depending on the specific kind of inert, lifeless flesh that the spell makes.

 

[painandgreed]

I'm about to scrap this thing and start over, [sarcasm]we'll do the goat-herding idea, with combat against things that eat goats. [/sarcasm]

To be honest, it seems, sarcastic or not, you are just sour grapes over the PCs inability to see the majestic beauty of your plots. You want them to be heroic and fight the government and risk their lives for reasons of selfinterest they wanted no part of and then don't want them to be heroic and try to resuce a friend and member of their party. Your tone is one of "You're not doing what I want, so you'll are losers." Perhaps you should scrap it and let somebody else DM and see how well you can read their mind.