If you're running a PC with VoP and he dies, are the other party members allowed to spend money on a True Res?
Yes. The party member that has taken the VoP is the only one that can't own expensive things.
Ray,
I agree with the point that the other party members can't spend money on you when you're alive. That I agree with. That is when your vow comes into play the most. Now, given the book everything's coming from, does the PC qualify for the Risen Martyr prestige class? If so, then the whole point is moot, make them go into that PrC if they really want to come back. This makes it very easy to add them to the story later on, and adds a lot of religious flavor to the character, possibly making him a further champion against the truly undead.
That being said:
When you're dead, you have no control over what they do. Most deities will understand this one, and won't holler too loudly... or they might block the resurrection, basically stating that the character is too valuable for the heavens rather than the mortal coil.
Some deities will allow it, mostly those of renewal, time, infinity, or suffering. What's better about this is that you can add story elements to this. My suggestion is that the high priest performing the resurrection (or PC) provides the party with the following information:
"For each of the most pious, the holy of holies amongst us, there is an opposite, and evil most hideous, and unholiest amongst us. If the holiest is raised, the balance raises this unholy one. Are you sure you want to do this?"
This could include a "native outsider" demon, devil, daemon, or other great evil (such as a living form of a lich destroyed earlier in the campaign). This has lots of RP and story fun that could bring the PC's to think twice about these vows... and the enemies they make as well.
See, two solutions, one problem. The player can come back, but they may cause other problems by doing so.
Hope it helps.
If you're running a PC with VoP and he dies, are the other party members allowed to spend money on a True Res?
As long as it's the non-VoP characters' money, yes. Just as a VoP character can accept healing from a wand owned by another character, a stoneskin cast on them by another character (as long as the VoP character isn't supplying the material component), etc.
Where you need to watch out is if the party takes it out of the VoP character's share. If any money for the true resurrection comes from the VoP character's share, then he's brought back to life, but loses the VoP.
One other thing to watch out for is a "party fund." Because of the potential for abuse, I usually don't allow "party funds" when there's a VoP character (other than the fact that the VoP character becomes a part-owner of "community property," which violates the VoP anyway). I suppose you can split hairs and have the non-VoP characters establish a "party fund" out of their shares, that the VoP character has no say over, but it's really difficult for most groups to keep it from violating either the letter or the spirit of the VoP.
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Another alternate way to handle things is to have the party need to fulfill a side-quest in order to raise a character with the Vow of Poverty. This way, their deeds take the place of the material component, the character with the Vow doesn't have a problem, and the player who has the dead character can play monsters for a time.