Which is better: Character death or item destruction?
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Infiniti2000
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You have to admit, as mean as that sounds, it has benefits. I remember a player we had a long time ago . . .lukelightning said:
Aeric
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Since we're not allowed to take specific situations into consideration, I had to vote character death. Most of the games I've played in have not involved terribly deep roleplaying, and so when confronted with a choice between making a new character who is fully equipped and an old character who has no equipment whatsoever, I would prefer to make a new character. It's just too hard to get all of that equipment back, and playing catch-up sucks.
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lukelightning said:
My gaming group has a house rule when it comes to making replacement characters. The new character has to have either a different class or race than the previous character. So you could replace a human paladin with a dwarf paladin or a human ranger, but not another human paladin. It keeps things fresh and interesting and prevents players from "rebooting" their characters whenever something bad happens to them.
I'll lose items any day and I play in a low magic/low magic item setting. Raising of the dead is usually not an option either.
For one thing if the character is gone so is the connection to the story. Starting new characters in some of our games is really, really hard.
Items from dead PCs usually never make it into the hands of new PCs since they usually either go to the PCs family, the other PCs, or are otherwise taken out of the party's hands.
For one thing if the character is gone so is the connection to the story. Starting new characters in some of our games is really, really hard.
Items from dead PCs usually never make it into the hands of new PCs since they usually either go to the PCs family, the other PCs, or are otherwise taken out of the party's hands.
ThirdWizard
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Lanefan said:
I would say the opposite. A character built from the ground up will have more useful items than a character who had to accumulate said wealth over several levels. The "organic" character probably has a lot of items that he doesn't use anymore that are still taking up wealth. He also probably has more interesting items, but that's not necessarily more powerful.
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