Which is interesting actually given that the people capable of using Wish, are the same group of people capable of making use of the diamonds. That Venn Diagram is a circle, and nobody has a use for the bulk industrial diamonds, meaning there's still a non commodity demand for high purity diamonds in the general public.
Only if you consider all casters of all levels/classes to be roughly equivalent for this purpose. Clerics can't cast Wish, but can cast Revivify starting at level 5 (though that's only useful if they're on the scene at time of death or are brought a corpse that was Gently Reposed at the moment of death). I would imagine that there are a lot more level 5 clerics running around in the world than level 17+ wizards/sorcerers, though.
I would say that with a divine intervention attempt to get a diamond to raise someone from the dead in that moment, the diety would instead just raise the creature. Cut out the middle step of giving a diamond, because then you're just causing a spell slot to be used, and a common success of divine intervention is replicating a spell anyway. Now I'd probably only use that for the lower level resurrections, not something like true resurrection. If someone were successful on a divine intervention and attempting to use it to replicate true resurrection, maybe let them know the exact location of a diamond that would fulfill the requirements?
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u/TheArmoredKitten Nov 13 '21
Which is interesting actually given that the people capable of using Wish, are the same group of people capable of making use of the diamonds. That Venn Diagram is a circle, and nobody has a use for the bulk industrial diamonds, meaning there's still a non commodity demand for high purity diamonds in the general public.