[Pirengle]

Resurrection does exist in IWD2 and, as far as I know, clerics are the only people who can cast it. (Druids might be able to do it, but who plays a druid in IWD2? [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) A cleric can cast two versions: Raise Dead and Resurrection. Raise Dead is a 5-level spell and brings the person back to 1 HP. Not very handy during battle unless the cleric can also cast Heal right afterwards. Resurrection is a 7-level spell that raises a dead party member but cures all hit points. You can also find scrolls of both as random loot and pay out the nose for a cleric to cast the spell.

As for reloading when party members die, I tend to reload only if the death could have been avoided. If someone in my party bit the big one because I forgot about them in battle, reload. If someone wound up chunky and there was no other way to survive combat, then I cast my spells.