Sounds like a nice change of pace. Put the fear of Death back into the players!
Of course, it seems redundant because there are already a couple of things worse than death waiting for the players. I love this game!
Sounds like a nice change of pace. Put the fear of Death back into the players!
Of course, it seems redundant because there are already a couple of things worse than death waiting for the players. I love this game!
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those raise dead scrolls ain't going to be cheap in my campaign..make the players squirm.
Sounds like a nice change of pace. Put the fear of Death back into the players!
Of course, it seems redundant because there are already a couple of things worse than death waiting for the players. I love this game!
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those raise dead scrolls ain't going to be cheap in my campaign..make the players squirm.
The availability of scrolls does somewhat mitigate the lack of high level spellcasters. I'd probably allow fairly easy access to one, maybe two, at normal price, but since there aren't many people around who can actually make the things, the "price" would get much higher (not in coins, but in quests which must be performed, or perhaps bidding wars to be roleplayed, black market encounters, etc.).
Kudos on keeping the NPCs to a lower level!
Sounds like a nice change of pace. Put the fear of Death back into the players!
Of course, it seems redundant because there are already a couple of things worse than death waiting for the players. I love this game!
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those raise dead scrolls ain't going to be cheap in my campaign..make the players squirm.
I have an idea: I'll let the prices skyrocket, with only one cult giving discounts.
And that's the Trans-Necrophilic cult of Oon. Talk about a rude awakening.
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I keep raising the dead a bit on the harder side, but I also keep my player-kill ratio on the lower side. We like advancing character-driven storylines through our adventures it just seems far more enjoyable.
For DM vs Player fun we play Descent: Journeys in the Dark, D&D is more about telling the story to us.
My goblin PCs are all giantkin.
Heh...
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Bah, be creative.
I had a rogue in one my my two Pathfinder games die on me in Thistletop (Rogue, Barbarian, battle Sorcerer, and a Crusader). The Crusader managed to *finally* have one of his strikes which heals finally get a hit in immediately following the rogue hitting -10. He was going to send the heal to another party memeber, but I ruled that less of it made it and didn't tell the party why until after the fight. The rogue was dead, they hauled him back to Sand Point, where father Zantus was able to determine that the rogue was really only "mostly dead." That somehow his soul was bound to this plane through the powers of the crusader. One improvised ritual later involving all the healers in town, plus the Crusader, and the rogue was alive again, both characters lost lots of xp's in the process, the rogue lost a point of con, the crusader, however, had a "Come to Jesus" meeting with Desna, Iomedea and <insert third god here>, where he could choose: trade his owwn life for the rogue's, or dedicate himself to one of the three of them - his choice.
He chose to dedicate himself to Iomedea, took a level of favored soul, and gained +2 wisdom (he lost all xp's back down to the start of lvl 3).
This all led to the rogue himself having a bit of a religious experience on his own, and is now pursuing a possible following of Desna.
Leads to all sorts of fun story stuff you can do on your own later in the campaign.
Bah, who needs scrolls or high level priests...
Steve
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 6
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I like that hook for the raise dead. One of my Golarion decisions is going to be that raising the dead is more than just a ritual - there has to be a cost. You've done a nice example of that.
It bugs me that you can easily buy scrolls that no one in the area can cast in 3rd ed. Yeah, I know, they can be imported...but you would think the supply would be far lower than the demand. I'd like to see it take more effort.
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I thought it was a bit more sadistic. Imagine getting tortured to death and then being raised just so they could continue to torture you some more.
Just my thoughts.
Trent Slabaugh
Co-Host / Design & Marketing
DigitalDungeonCast.com
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Yoink! Anything to disturb my characters a little more is good.
I take the dead coming back to life as a "big event" usually beyond the means of mortals. Then again, with my luck, no one is ever going to die unless they just do something stupid.
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Just my thoughts.
Trent Slabaugh
Co-Host / Design & Marketing
DigitalDungeonCast.com
That's got nothing on the old "put a ring of regeneration on some poor bastard and then eat him. KEEP EATING HIM!"
And that's not even starting.