Quote Originally Posted by Jack_Simth View Post
The Miniatures Handbook's Delay Death spell vs. Spell Compendium's Delay Death spell are substantially different - Cleric 3 vs. Cleric-4, standard action vs. Immediate action, Touch vs. Short range. But with the sidebar on page 4 of Spell Compendium ("... some material has been revised to 3.5..."), and the back cover of the Spell Compendium ("... and have been updated to include official errata...") there's a significant number of DM's that will not let you use the original version of spells when the Spell Compendium is in play.
*shrug* Just requires you to use Ocular Spell (Lords of Madness) metamagic as well, it's still doable.