Saeviomagy
Adventurer
If the following are all true:
1. You've determined that one character is useless, effectively unable to participate in the game.
2. You've then also determined that the player cannot replace that character until it dies.
3. You've also determined that the character can't be healed.
4. You've informed the other players that their characters will suffer major penalties for intervening.
Then you're just being a dick. If you wish to not be a dick, change one of the above (preferably 1, 2 or 3, because forcing players to metagame for another players enjoyment doesn't sit well with me).
My personal choice would be to change 1. Let them play on as a hovering ethereal brain with the limited ability to direct and communicate with their body, let them play on as an alien possessing entity in the vacant body, or as an alien creature that their brain has been relocated to.
Make it a "remember that time your brain was eaten AND THEN..." story, not another PC death to be forgotten.
1. You've determined that one character is useless, effectively unable to participate in the game.
2. You've then also determined that the player cannot replace that character until it dies.
3. You've also determined that the character can't be healed.
4. You've informed the other players that their characters will suffer major penalties for intervening.
Then you're just being a dick. If you wish to not be a dick, change one of the above (preferably 1, 2 or 3, because forcing players to metagame for another players enjoyment doesn't sit well with me).
My personal choice would be to change 1. Let them play on as a hovering ethereal brain with the limited ability to direct and communicate with their body, let them play on as an alien possessing entity in the vacant body, or as an alien creature that their brain has been relocated to.
Make it a "remember that time your brain was eaten AND THEN..." story, not another PC death to be forgotten.