Withers bothers me a lot more than the revivify scrolls. I think Withers should be taken out, as the character is completely immersion breaking and the scrolls much less so. One way to adjust the difficulty of the game would be to modify the availability of revivify scrolls. Just make them very common/cheap for story mode, uncommon/rare/expensive in the base game, and non-existent on the hardest setting.
The shaky undead hanging out at camp selling cheap Raise Deads bothers me too. It's so camp.
It's like a joke but it tries to be all mysterious and ominous at the same time with a serious voice. You can't be that when you're hanging around the camp as a cheap res player convenience feature! I have no idea what they are trying to do with this character and it looks like neither does Larian. This is what I was also talking about in another thread about Larian mixing different styles or genres in the same game. A character like Withers is pure comedy, but this is not a comedy game.
I never needed to buy a Raise Dead from Withers, or used a Scroll or Revivify either. They could easily have a Core Rules or Hard difficulty without those. And on easier difficulties, PC's can just wake up after the fight is over and never die like in Dragon Age. Why exactly do we need Revivify scrolls everywhere and a weird res vendor
who follows you around everywhere? Is he going to follow us to Elfsong Tavern and everyone will just be like "ha-ha what a cute undead lich" like they are in the wilderness? No one cares that you have an undead walking around at your campsite. Everyone is just like "Yeah that's just Withers. Say hi Withers." That's comedy.
