Quote Originally Posted by LadyEowyn View Post
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If you can vacation in an afterlife while still alive, doesn’t that kind of defeat the point of it being an afterlife? Like, could Roy drop by Celestia and visit his little brother any time via Plane Shift?
Sure, assuming you have a cleric of high enough level to cast the spell for you and a way to get back.

A simplistic math exercise should clarify the issue:

If 2 million characters have a cleric level then
200,000 are level 2
20,000 are level 3
2000 are level 4
200 are level 5
20 are level 6
And 2 are level 7

In order to have 2 NPCs in the world which can cast level 5 spells you need 200 million clerics in the world.

If 1 in 10 NPCs have an adventuring class level and 1 in 6 of those are clerics then the world population needs to exceed 12 trillion.

Now, I'm sure the world population isn't that high for all sentient races combined, and we have seen multiple high level casters, so the OotSverse doesn't work on a linear scale. However, even a curve which allows multiple higher level casters would insure they are scattered around the world and difficult to access unless you have a good friend who owes you a favor.

As a side bet, I'm betting 1/3 of the world's highest level clerics are at the Godsmoot. Fewer than 100 clerics of high enough level to cast the spell would be left in The North, and Minrah just toasted one right after the Thundershields toasted another.