Raise Dead...

I'm having trouble with raising my dead thief. I lost her (Lawful evil halfling thief) and my mage (chao good 1/2-elf mage) in a fight in Dragons' Eye. I go back to Kuldahar and buy 2 Raise Dead scrolls for my cleric to use on them. Works fine with my mage, but not the thief. She didn't die an "explosive death".
Am I missing something? I'm not getting much response on this on other boards, seems like perhaps most people just reload until no one dies?

Thanks much.

Try going to a priest. They usually have raise dead and the more expensive resurrection. Raise Death doesn't have the restrictions that resurrection does (Elves can not be resurrected), it just leaves you with 1HP. Otherwise I don't know what the problem could be.

Raise dead doesn't work when 1)You've died an "explosive" death (as you pointed out) and 2)When your character is brought below -10HP. Also, reciting Raise Dead from the scroll is only supposed to work at the place of death only. At least I believe I remember that right. I'm guilty of just reloading when someone dies too, but I'm thinkin of just playing it out and at least try to pretend I'm really roleplaying

[Erekose]

In the game the scrolls of raise dead and resurrect have to be used tin the area the character dies in. If you leave the area then you have to pay or have your priest cast the spell. Cheers