4 Raise Dead Hacks For D&D

[@Wheeler1717]

Great vid. We're always trying to make our campaign more gritty by raising the stakes. We're at the point where all healing spells can only be cast as rituals. We're level 7 now and nobody's died or even come close. Which takes away that feeling of fantasy danger. But, should it happen, we're constantly brainstorming on how ro deal with PC death. Those were some good suggestions. I really like the sacrifice stuff. There should be a high price to pay for cheating death. A difficult choice that really makes the party have to weigh their options.

[@artistpoet5253]

We've never had a resurrection in our games. Most times if a character was killed there's nothing left but a sweet memory. That and we play mostly one-shots.

[@chrisragner3882]

Love this. Stealing this! Thanks. The sacrifice of something could be visualized with the “death” is drawn away from the friend to the sacrificed item or person (giving a memory as suggested). Love it.

[@TwinSteel]

🥳❤️👍🏿

[@Aironfaar]

Great video, I always like to hear how people handle resurrection in D&D. Given the spells that player characters can learn for this purpose, character death can feel *too* cheap at times in 5e, so this is welcome food for thought. On a side note, it made me chuckle that you went with a photo of a bunch of German EUR cent coins at 6:34. Ah yes, (Nordic) gold and copper(-covered steel)… x)

[@wizardsling]

heh i use a free stock image site called pixabay and usually just grab whatever the first search result is when looking for insert pictures.

[@Aironfaar]

@@wizardsling If it works, it works - and it sure does work! :]

[@TwinSteel]

I’ve been toying with someone having to sacrifice HP or HD permanently to seed life back into the dead creature and possibly decreasing the difficulty of any checks or challenges for any additional sacrifices beyond the minimum

[@wizardsling]

I like it. Or also permanently worsening the odds of future death saves, like success is only on a 12+ from now on.

[@TwinSteel]

@@wizardsling yeah, I like that - I had also considered having to permanently donate a death save to seed life instead - of course, one could offer the players a choice between the options as part of the ritual - “well you could drink this nurnroot (lose HD), donate part of your soul (death save) or drain 2 quarts of blood (HP). The choice is yours, but once we start, there’s no going back”

[@BMHume]

Sounds great 🙂 So, as a softy myself, I just have to learn how to kill a PC now... 😄

[@RIVERSRPGChannel]

I’m almost the complete opposite as far as magic goes. I run a high magic, the PCs are heroes type of game. So far we’ve had 3 deaths, but with true resurrection available they are alive and well but one has a scar on his neck left over from the decapitation