Raise Dead and Charity of Friends [Archive] - Wizards Community

Raise Dead and Charity of Friends [Archive] - Wizards Community

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imredave
01-17-07, 12:14 AM After an unfortunate encounter (don't let the monster with the scythe critical hit you). I find my low level cleric dead. I am able to raise the minimum 2000 gp to buy a raise dead on the installment plan by selling EVERYTHING (and having other players donate me the remaining 191 gold pieces). Having lost all my equipment, am I eligible for the charity of friends rule which gives me the 641 gp I had at the end of the last adventure? How do I record all this on the adventure record?:confused:
pedr
01-17-07, 02:54 AM Did you "Die[] in such a way that you lost all your equipment"? I don't believe so - you died, then would have to 'lose' all your equipment to afford a raise. In my opinion these are not the same. You're better off convincing the rest of the party to chip in more. Remember that if there's any 'over the cap' gold you can use that to pay for in-module spellcasting, including raise deads at the very end.

In my local group we have a standing policy that all players are presumed to be willing to chip in in equal amounts to pay for raise deads as they're very expensive and it's essentially the whole party's responsibility that you died in the first place. If they're not willing to do that, you might have to start your next module with absolutely nothing (well except the clothes on your back- as they're free (per the PH) you can't get anything for selling them (per the LGCS), thankfully! As you are then committed to paying the church back for your raise, you won't be able to buy more than 100gp worth of equipment per module, so this is a pretty poor idea!

However to answer the second question for completeness, it's not easy to see how you record charity of friends on an AR. To be honest so long as the workings are there somewhere (at the bottom, on the back, somewhere so it could be checked by someone later) then you'll be OK. I put a running total of the amount of my debt (3500 in your case) at the bottom of each AR until I paid the debt off when I had such a debt.
Maesto
01-18-07, 07:52 PM I think you qualify. You didn't sell anything. You woke up with everything sold for you (lost), along with a debt to pay. I'd grant you CoF as a DM.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
imredave 01-17-07, 12:14 AM	After an unfortunate encounter (don't let the monster with the scythe critical hit you). I find my low level cleric dead. I am able to raise the minimum 2000 gp to buy a raise dead on the installment plan by selling EVERYTHING (and having other players donate me the remaining 191 gold pieces). Having lost all my equipment, am I eligible for the charity of friends rule which gives me the 641 gp I had at the end of the last adventure? How do I record all this on the adventure record?:confused:
pedr 01-17-07, 02:54 AM	Did you "Die[] in such a way that you lost all your equipment"? I don't believe so - you died, then would have to 'lose' all your equipment to afford a raise. In my opinion these are not the same. You're better off convincing the rest of the party to chip in more. Remember that if there's any 'over the cap' gold you can use that to pay for in-module spellcasting, including raise deads at the very end. In my local group we have a standing policy that all players are presumed to be willing to chip in in equal amounts to pay for raise deads as they're very expensive and it's essentially the whole party's responsibility that you died in the first place. If they're not willing to do that, you might have to start your next module with absolutely nothing (well except the clothes on your back- as they're free (per the PH) you can't get anything for selling them (per the LGCS), thankfully! As you are then committed to paying the church back for your raise, you won't be able to buy more than 100gp worth of equipment per module, so this is a pretty poor idea! However to answer the second question for completeness, it's not easy to see how you record charity of friends on an AR. To be honest so long as the workings are there somewhere (at the bottom, on the back, somewhere so it could be checked by someone later) then you'll be OK. I put a running total of the amount of my debt (3500 in your case) at the bottom of each AR until I paid the debt off when I had such a debt.
Maesto 01-18-07, 07:52 PM	I think you qualify. You didn't sell anything. You woke up with everything sold for you (lost), along with a debt to pay. I'd grant you CoF as a DM.