I recently read a Twitter conversation about high-level cleric characters in D&D and their effects on the game, and I thought about writing something on that. But as usually happens, I can’t tell the difference between things I have already written or just things I have thought about, because as it turns out, I already had a post about this very same thing. But it was in my drafts folder, from July of 2016, unpublished. For reference, this is the tweet that triggered memories of that three-year-old dusty draft:

#DnD

Having a means of bringing characters back to life in Dungeons and Dragons (Resurrect, Reincarnate, ect.) undermines the whole threat of death in the game.

— Santa Law Dog (@LawDogStrikes) December 17, 2019

So here it is, with some minor variations, the post I wanted to write three years ago but never did for some reason:

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