Resurrecting Characters

I love reading narrations of other peoples campaigns, and unfortunately they are not all that easily come by, or not really clear and easy reading. James from Grognardia posted a great narration of his last session in which one of his characters was killed and then resurrected.

Slimes, molds, and fungi seemed to be a theme for the dungeon as they pressed onward into the dungeon, where they encountered a room whose surfaces were almost entirely covered with weird growths. Fearing what would happen if they ventured in too far, Vladimir decided to take his torch with him and clear a path from one archway to another. He figured he could burn away some of the growths, bit by bit, and avoid their potential danger. What he didn’t count on was the fact that, in setting fire to them, he’d cause them to release noxious spores into the air, which he inhaled. A failed saving throw later and the intrepid dwarf was dead.

Through the clever use of a grappling hook, the party recovered Vladimir’s body. Brother Candor decided that they could pool their limited funds to have the dwarf raised from the dead at the Temple of Tyche in Adamas. Unfortunately, that meant return to the city-state where they were wanted men. After some thought, they found a farm on the way between Muntburg and Adamas, where they paid the farmer for the temporary use of his cart. They then cleaned his stalls of manure, piling it into the cart and on top of Vladimir’s corpse. They also applied a healthy dose of the excrement to themselves so that they could enter Adamas “disguised” as manure collectors. The plan worked well enough and Vladimir was restored to life.

This is slightly unusual, I think, to bring a character back to life, and from what I gathered, it was not at an unusual cost, it seemed almost mundane.

What do you think?

In the campaigns you play in - is it possible to resurrect a character?