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Rod of Resurrection

Rod Of Resurrection
  • Category: Rod
  • Rarity: Legendary (Requires Attunement)

The rod has 5 charges. While you hold it, you can cast one of the following spells from it: Heal (expends 1 charge) or Resurrection (expends 5 charges).

The rod regains 1 expended charge daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 1, the rod disappears in a harmless burst of radiance.

Tactical Applications​

Life Restoration: Provides resurrection magic to restore fallen allies to life. Exceptional for emergency healing, party support, and ensuring mission continuity when characters face deadly encounters.

Class Synergies:

  • Any Class: Universal utility for resurrection regardless of class or healing specialization
  • Support Builds: Perfect for characters designed to protect and restore allies
  • Party Leaders: Essential for characters responsible for group survival and mission success
  • Emergency Healers: Excellent for characters providing critical healing and life restoration

Build Considerations: Provides limited resurrection uses with significant cost. Most valuable for parties facing deadly encounters and requiring emergency life restoration.

Acquisition Methods​

Crafting Requirements: Requires resurrection magic, life restoration enchantments, and divine essences. Creation cost 75,000-150,000 gp and takes 100+ weeks.

Common Sources:

  • Divine specialists and life restoration enchanters
  • Treasure hoards of legendary clerics and divine champions
  • Gifts from deities and divine entities for exceptional service
  • Found in the collections of resurrection experts and divine artifacts
  • Sometimes discovered in divine sanctuaries or obtained through divine favor

Alternative Acquisition: Extremely rare, typically found only through divine intervention or legendary achievement.

Value & Trade​

Estimated Value: 100,000+ gp - beyond normal economic systems due to life restoration capabilities.

Trade Considerations: Cannot be purchased through normal means, only acquired through divine favor or legendary adventures.

Character Integration​

Roleplay Elements: Suggests divine favor, exceptional service to life-affirming causes, or achievement of legendary status in healing and restoration.

Character Concepts:

  • Divine champion with resurrection expertise and life restoration experience
  • Legendary healer using ultimate restoration for party protection and divine service
  • Character chosen by divine forces for life restoration missions and divine intervention
  • Sacred protector combining resurrection magic with traditional healing techniques

Adventure Hooks​

The Death Crisis: Epic adventures where resurrection provides the only solution to character death and mission failure.

The Divine Mission: Scenarios where life restoration advances divine objectives and sacred purposes.

The Ultimate Sacrifice: Situations where resurrection enables heroic sacrifice and ultimate party protection.

The Life Challenge: Encounters where restoration magic determines mission success and character survival.

Variants & Customization​

Rod of Divine Resurrection (Artifact): Enhanced with unlimited resurrections and divine favor protection.

Rod of Life Mastery (Cosmic Artifact): Includes comprehensive life control and ultimate restoration capabilities.

Sacred Restoration Rod (Artifact): Blessed by life deities with enhanced divine favor and sacred alignment.

Specialized Variants:

  • Hero's Resurrection Rod: Enhanced for noble purposes with improved beneficial outcomes and reduced resurrection penalties
  • Divine Service Rod: Optimized for sacred missions with enhanced divine favor and life restoration effectiveness
  • Guardian's Life Rod: Specialized for protection with enhanced ally restoration and divine intervention

Lore & History​

Origins: Created by divine forces as tools for maintaining the balance between life and death and enabling necessary resurrections.

Historical Significance: These rods enabled legendary heroic achievements and the success of critical life-saving missions.

Cultural Impact: Represent the ultimate expression of divine healing power and the sacred nature of life restoration.

Magical Craft: Demonstrates divine-level understanding of life magic and the most complex resurrection processes.

Balancing Notes​

Introduction Timing: Appropriate for levels 15-20 when character death becomes a serious threat and resurrection provides crucial advantages.

Campaign Impact: Provides ultimate life restoration balanced by extreme rarity and divine favor requirement.

Divine Focus: Most valuable in campaigns featuring divine themes and life-threatening challenges.

Encounter Design​

Recommended Challenges:

  • Death scenarios where resurrection provides the only solution to character loss and mission failure
  • Divine encounters where life restoration advances sacred objectives and divine will
  • Heroic situations where resurrection enables ultimate sacrifice and legendary achievement
  • Life-threatening challenges where restoration magic determines party survival and mission success

Resurrection Adjustments: Campaigns may fundamentally change when resurrection magic becomes reliably available to characters.

Divine Items: Other artifacts that provide life restoration and divine capabilities.

Healing Equipment:

  • Items that enhance divine magic and life restoration effectiveness
  • Equipment for resurrection and divine intervention
  • Tools for life magic and divine enhancement

Complementary Equipment: Items that enhance divine abilities or provide additional life restoration benefits.

Roleplay Opportunities​

Divine Mastery: Characters develop connection to divine forces and ultimate healing responsibility.

Life Leadership: Resurrection capabilities create opportunities for leading life-saving missions and divine service.

Sacred Excellence: Life restoration enables exploration of themes related to divine responsibility and the sacred nature of life and death.