Maybe it’s about a system, a specific mechanic, lore, builds, types of players, ttrpg-adjacent products - whatever they are, share them.
Maybe it’s about a system, a specific mechanic, lore, builds, types of players, ttrpg-adjacent products - whatever they are, share them.
DND requires the soul to be willing to return. Most afterlifes would provide a strong incentive to stay dead.
That’s an interesting take and one I never thought about before, but very rarely does that reluctance actually come up in play, established settings, or fiction unless it’s for a specific individual intrigue moment. Why do dead player characters come back so readily? Are adventurers just adverse to the afterlife? Also, there’s a weirder implication: does that mean bad people with some sort of damnation waiting for them are statistically far more likely to return?
Probably because they were in the middle of doing something and want to finish.
Bg3 has a neat note about one of the npc characters resenting being resurrected. He was a follower of bhaal and enjoyed the afterlife that seemed like a damnation.
I still don’t see many official materials through the decades I’ve played D&D that suggested that it was that rare for resurrection magic to actually fail that often by way of people not wanting to return.