Resurrection

what are some examples of doing resurrection magic that justify why only few people, regardless of wealth, would even consider such a thing? no RNG bullshit though

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You can make it so every time you resurrect you lose a part of your being, or are traumatised from the experience of being brought back because it's painful as fuck.

>what are some examples of doing resurrection magic that justify why only few people, regardless of wealth, would even consider such a thing?

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better than being dead though

Only a Deity can do it, and, having done it, your character is now bound to their service for half of the restored lifespan, starting immediately. Most people don't like the idea of being an "errand boy" for the divine, particularly when it's going to take up their prime adventuring years.

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Do resurrection chances count as RNG bullshit?
Because if not just base it around the fact that only one of strong constitution AND sound mind is likely to survive the shock of having their soul brought back from the afterlife and forced into their shell of a body which is immediately kickstarted into turning on again if all goes well.
So even those with high stats don't have more than say an 80% chance, and it can go as low as 5% or 10%.

Then have it so failure fractures the soul (which the clergy assure you is eternal torment), or even worse banishes the soul to some kind of hellish afterlife for going against the natural order, while causing the body to resurrect as a zombie (or possibly more capable undead) fueled only by the baser instincts of the person who inhabited it before.


Alternatively, if you want a more divine hand involved, have it work somewhat like Resplendence of Renewed Youth, except instead of de-aging someone to their prime, it resurrects them at their prime. The cost being that they must be someone who was incredibly pious, and they must have a grand goal that further's their deity's ambitions AND is a goal that only they can complete (or at least very few people could complete). The goal is bound into the spell (like a quest/geas), and should the resurrected being ever veer from the quest he immediately dies. If he fails to complete the quest within a year, he dies. If he accomplishes the grand quest, he still dies exactly 1 year after he was resurrected.

Just have Heaven be real but forbidden to those who commit sudoku. Anyone yanked from there would be pretty pissed that they now have to live a whole other life to get back.

Could have heaven be real but you can only enter it once, so being resurrected guarantees you an eternity in hell.

No way, people would be ressurecting each other just to fuck with their afterlives.
>Fuck my boss, what a cunt. i'm gonna revive that mofo

afterlife fuckery mind

Nah, just doubleposting. I dunno how I did it, honestly.

LotR rules. Gods can't be done with you yet. That's the reason nobody else gets to do it but PCs do it all the fucking time.

Could go the Inception route.

Instead of passing Go and collecting 200 dollars, the resurrectee has to force themselves to chill out in limbo while they wait for their corpse to be found and the magic to happen, and time passes quite a bit faster without your body. If you're anything but the most mentally disciplined of folks you're probably going to come out a psychotic wreck, and just dying again won't fix it.

Bringing someone back requires one of the gods to want to bring him/her back to life. Which is not something they often do as mortals are usually easily replaced. Especially if they prepare the replacements ahead of time.

So they need a reason to bring a specific person back. Maybe he's the only one who can do the thing. More likely, a god just thinks will be more amusing if this mortal lives a bit longer.

Resurrection is a divine magic exclusive to Zhu Di, Goddess of Law and Judgement. To perform a resurrection, a circle of believers must gather in the Chamber of Law in a sanctified temple of Zhu Di and perform an evaluation of the deceased's actions during life and the duties they have left the mortal plane without performing. Following up to weeks to discussion and evaluation, the high priests will come to their conclusion. If the subject is worthy and have pressing duties to fulfill that if left undone would result in suffering, they will resurrect them on the spot. If they have sinned gravely and are determined to be causing less disruption to the sanctity of peace and order dead than alive, they are cremated. If their legacy in the living world is morally grey and controversial, and no definite conclusion can he met, the body will be ritually embalmed and preserved by sacred rituals so that the priests may continue their discourse into the future for as long as needed to reach a conclusion. Sometimes Zhu Di herself will pass direct judgement in the form of an omen, which will bypass the debates of her priests entirely and result in immediate resurrection or cremation.

Mage the Awakening has a good explanation

1. It only works for the duration of the spell, it gets dispelled, you're dead again
2. You come 'back' without a soul, meaning you're a shambling wreck and unable to properly do Magic unless you steal someone else's and force them into such a state
3. It's only doable by Masters of Death, which is the level of proficiency immediately before Archmastery. There are quite few Masters, amongst the quite small population of Mages
4. It can only be done on a recently deceased body, which requires further maintained Death Magic to undo the decay and decrepitude which has afflicted your corpse, or Time Magic to summon a version of your body from when it was recently dead

So yeah, the dead can be raised.
But it's no small feat.

You can only resurrect into a living body, and it destroys the soul of whoever owns the body. It also works best, or at all, if you are related by blood to that body, so the targets are typically your siblings or children.

RAISING THE DEAD

Anyone can be raised up to 1d3 times. Known only to the DM, rolled when the character is first made.
Anyone can be reincarnated as many times as they want.
Regardless of method* used, no Constitution, XP or levels are lost.
No PC or NPC can raise more than once per point of wisdom. A character with a Wisdom Score of 21 can raise or resurrect 21 times. If another point of wisdom is permanently gained then the number of time he can raise someone increase.
*raise, resurrect, miracles or wishes
“Gods are fickle and such workings are mysterious” is the mood and atmosphere that is meant to be given

what's this reference?

Highly questionable. If you're dead then you generally go to your god's version of heaven and you may not want to go back.

It only works in and around the dungeon. Boom. Done.