Yes, that makes sense. However, to my way of thinking, implicit in a deity's ability to reduce the strain of their priest raising someone by divine interaction would also be their ability to increase said strain.
My thought was if the 'cost' of a deity's displeasure was hard coded to take effect here at this point it would reduce the subjectivity of any GM-driven divine retribution - thus removing the ever present potential for a player to cry foul as to the treatment they received for their
RP suspect actions from one GM versus the treatment another player received from another GM for a perceived similar
RP suspect action?
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Originally Posted by Weeblie  As I see it, the XP penalty from Raise Dead/Ressurection does not come from your god directly (i.e. your god doesn't smite you). Instead, it's the sacrifice parts of your own soul to bring back another. Like... if a huge amount of power had to be channeled somewhere, and if there are no presence of any soulstone, you have to channel that power through yourself, which puts your own soul into strain.
And why does the XP become worse the worse the relation between the deities are? Well...
Perhaps, if you are trying to ressurect a friendly deity, your own god will "help you a little bit more" compared to when you are ressurecting a unfriendly one!  |