Worst Session Ever!

[pogre]

"I would have to say that's the only change I'm thinking of making to my campaign - removing true resurrection altogether. "

This is a change my PLAYERS have suggested to me.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Monte Cooks Ptolus boards have great stuff on how D&D rules affect the world. If resurrection is common, killing someone would just be a warning to him.

"Work" comes in three variations, each with its own effect, purpose, price - and penalty.

The simplest is not used often, but happens enough to have acquired the term "standard". The idea is that you want to warn an individual away from a certain course of action, or toward another. In this case, for a fee that starts at fifteen hundred gold and goes up from there depending on how hard the target is, an assassin will arrange for the selected individual to become dead. What happens after that doesn't much matter to the killer, but as often as not the body will eventually be found by a friend or relative, who may or may not be willing and able to have the person revivified.

Revivification costs heavily - up to four thousand gold for difficult cases. Even the easiest takes an expert sorcerer to perform, and it is never a sure thing.

In other words, the victim will wake up, if he does, with the knowledge that there is someone out there - and he usually knows who - who doesn't really care if he lives or dies and is willing to expend at least fifteen hundred gold imperials to prove this.

This is rather chilling knowledge. It happened to me once.

- Vlad Taltos, Jhereg (by Steven Brust).

 

[hong]

My mental dialogue (if I even have one ) reads this sentence to me in the Emperors voice from SW!

And it becomes even MORE CHILLING if you add the words that Flexor inadvertently left off the end:

They are well aware of their own stupidity in bed.

Or possibly it was a quote from someone else:

They are well aware of their own stupidity... as the bishop said to the prostitute.

Or possibly both:

They are well aware of their own stupidity in bed... as the bishop said to the prostitute.

Terrible, terrible.

 

[Zappo]

I don't know. Where do you get this? And if this is true, there isn't any point in resurrecting anyone in the first place, since they've forgotten everything. Like how to cast spells. Or use a sword. etc...

I thought a petitioner had no memory of his former life (but he would regain it in the resurrection process, while forgetting the afterlife). Could be wrong.