[hcobb]

Under the current rules a sufficient number of healing potions can revive any character who died in the past hour and otherwise you have to wait for them to rise as a ghost in order to have a chance of wishing them back to life.

Hence if you didn't bring enough healing potions to revive your splattered comrade you need to sweep up the scattered body parts and taunt them until they rise as a ghost that will chase you all the way back to the Wizard's Guild where they can be wished back to life.

But yes, the game does need a special talent that can quickly cure any sort of minor wound more effectively than modern science. Call it Master Physicker.