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We are playing Hells Vengence and My character is a tiefling that has the ability to raise a zombie or skeleton. Per the GM, Per the book, I need to purchase a corpse. we cannot find the cost of a corpse. can anyone help us out?
Why purchase though? When you kill an enemy, then you have a corpse at your disposal.
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Reasoning is, being the fact that this is Cheliax, necromancy is not illegal, however, the corpse you killed does not belong to you. So it needs to be paid for. If you are in the middle of nowhere and no one knows where the corpse came from, then sure. However, when the corpse is a when known and loved member of town, you may be have a decent reason to kill that person, but the corpse doesn't belong to you.We are playing Hells Vengence and My character is a tiefling that has the ability to raise a zombie or skeleton. Per the GM, Per the book, I need to purchase a corpse. we cannot find the cost of a corpse. can anyone help us out?Why purchase though? When you kill an enemy, then you have a corpse at your disposal.
Animate the corpse as a skeleton and problem solved.
Pay 10% the price of a household slave: 5 gold.
Uh... wait.
As it turns out Necromancers generally charge 50-100 gold as a "body fee", and, since PCs can generally only sell things for half the price they can purchase them for, the "base" price for a corpse is probably 25-50 gold!
An argument could be made (by Craft) that it only costs 1/3 the sell price, but I'd maintain that any difference between 1/3 and 1/2 the purchase price exists exclusively due to "normal" legal fees and extra taxes (which Cheliax would be really big about).
So!
Answer: probably 25-50 gold, unless you buy it from a vendor, in which case, probably 50-100 gold (though this generally presupposes a "finished" product, i.e. "already undead). Hope that helps!
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IMO, if the GM is going to insist on all corpses being legally purchased (and I do actually agree with the reasoning), it's up to the GM to set a cost for it, in the absence of any official price.
I wouldn't set it too high, though. Not more than the cost of the onyx material component. Because you're not so much 'buying' a corpse, as purchasing a licence to circumvent the usual laws on disposal.
The government has to charge you, as compensation for taking work from the gravedigger and mortician. Some of the fee is likely to be passed on to them.
Pay 10% the price of a household slave: 5 gold.Uh... wait.
As it turns out Necromancers generally charge 50-100 gold as a "body fee", and, since PCs can generally only sell things for half the price they can purchase them for, the "base" price for a corpse is probably 25-50 gold!
An argument could be made (by Craft) that it only costs 1/3 the sell price, but I'd maintain that any difference between 1/3 and 1/2 the purchase price exists exclusively due to "normal" legal fees and extra taxes (which Cheliax would be really big about).
So!
Answer: probably 25-50 gold, unless you buy it from a vendor, in which case, probably 50-100 gold (though this generally presupposes a "finished" product, i.e. "already undead). Hope that helps!
Just so it's clear, these prices come from the book Pathfinder Player Companion: Black Markets, bespeaking of illegal activities ("Black Markets"), so it's as Paizo-official as I know of.
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Fair. Fair. :)