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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4506083" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, which came first is only interesting if you consider there to be a cause-and-effect relationship involved.  If they introduced raise dead because they found characters died too often, then it is interesting.  But correlation does not imply causation.I don't think we have much evidence for (or against) that causation here.  These weren't guys who were applying modern design and game science to their work, because it was thirty years ago and RPGs were brand spanking new, and nobody had experience enough to have "design principles" for them.  Raising the dead could be in the game just because it was cool, rather than because gameplay experience called for it.Anyone know offhand if the Chainmail fantasy rules had ways to bring units back after they were destroyed?</blockquote>