Originally Posted by DraigoZarovich
I do think the Scrolls of Revivify should be changed into Scrolls of Raise Dead if they really want to keep them. Since Revivify can only be done within 1 minute of death but Raise Dead can be done within 10 days. They should also add the material consumption later on for these, 300 gp diamonds should be pretty hard to come by until you get to Baldurs Gate proper

I don't think switching Revivify for Raise Dead is the solution. The solution is that Revivify should only be able to be used by select classes, AND if the user isn't high enough of a level they should have to make a roll to see if they succeed, AND they should only be able to be used within the first minute after a person dies.

So, combat should not end if you have a dead companion unless the player purposely ends Turn-Based Mode. The game should continue to track how many rounds the person has been dead for - sigh - like in Solasta (sigh - I had to say it). If you can use a Revivify scroll within 10 rounds after death, the character is saved. If not, they're dead. Then, you either need to go to Withers to raise them from the dead, spending 200 GP (which should be more like 500 since that's, I think, how much it actually costs for a Raise Dead diamond), or you should have to find a (very rare) Raise Dead scroll AND 500 GP diamond.

Raise Dead scrolls should be dished out VERY seldomly. They are rare items, not things Larian should hand out like candy, like they are Revivify scrolls. They (Raise Dead Scrolls), and the diamonds that are necessary to cast them, should be few and far between. They should make players go, "Oh thank God! A Raise Dead Scroll AND diamond! Now I have a safety net. This is great especially since I"m about to fight a beholder in the Underdark. I wish I had two!"

Revivify, on the other hand, is a lower spell with the 1 minute limit, so it is a bit more common and is more appropriate to hand out frequently. They just need to actually implement the rules correctly so that neither of these items is OP, like Revivify Scrolls are currently.

I mean, why even bother having death at all in the game if you're going to hand out a ton of Revivify scrolls and make it so you can use them at any point after someone dies? There's no excitement at all to that. Only IF your entire party is wiped is death even remotely an issue in BG3.

I've had Astarion live, and everyone else died in my party (Gith Patrol Fight), but Astarion used Revivify Scrolls to bring everyone back. Psssh! Lame. Astarion, Vampire Spawn Rogue, uses Revivify scrolls AFTER everyone's been dead for like 10 minutes (I fled with him to Waukeen's Rest and the Flaming Fist helped me kill the rest of the Gith). That's just wrong on so many levels.