[SixOfSpades]

I have never heard of this bug before--and I've heard of a lot of bugs.

The only Raise Dead problems I'm aware of are the purchaseable scrolls restored by Unfinished Business--due to some quirks of the game engine, the scrolls don't do diddly squat (although the brains behind the mod in question may have fixed that by now). As Illumina said, it's a definite certainty that if the dead character's portrait is still in your party, any temple will always be able to bring them back to life--or at least that's how it's supposed to be. Firestormalpha, you're correct in that BioWare originally intended each character's Constitution score affect their odds of surviving a Raise Dead attempt, but this never actually made it into the game--the spell is 100% successful, every time . . . unless of course you have a bug or two.

Conquistador, I take it you were able to resurrect Kagain?

Frankly, I'm not sure if The Original Saga is bug-free or not. Sure, it says that it's fully patched on the box, but really, are they gonna say anything else? You might visit forums.pocketplane.net and/or forums.gibberlings3.net and read the news on patches & fixpacks, to see if The Original Saga is really all it was cracked up to be. For fixing this one bug, though, the best option would probably be to download the program called Sword Coast Keeper (Google it), and use it to hack Imoen to 1 hitpoint. This may or not restore her to life, but it probably should.

You should also consider starting a new game, getting to the Friendly Arm Inn or Beregost, killing Imoen (or anybody, really), and seeing if you can Raise them in that game.

[ADD] You cannot CLUA in recruitable NPCs, at least not in BG1. They will appear, yes, they have their standard joining dialogue and equipment, yes, they will obey your orders, yes, but as soon as you try to Save your game or go through an Auto-Save with them, the game immediately crashes.

[ 05-09-2007, 01:39 AM: Message edited by: SixOfSpades ]