Quote Originally Posted by Niek View Post
Example: one of the villains in the 3.5 splat Elder Evils is motivated by the loss of her lover, who was struck dead by a meteorite. As a 10th level Ur-Priest, she could easily cast a Resurrection or even a True Resurrection spell to resolve this problem, but the book gives no indication of this ever having been considered as an option.
This is not an example of not having the same rules for PCs and NPCs. The wealth by level or even the class rules are better examples.

Your example is more ''the writer does not understand the rules'', ''the writer does not care'', ''the writer is to lazy to look up details'' or '' ''the writer is not taking into account the complexity of the game world.''