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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 29503" data-attributes="member: 2067">Making Death FearfulThere are a few ways to accomplish this:1 -- Character Background. Never underestimate the power of a good story. If the players feel their PC's are important, have a history, and that the fate of the world may be resting on *this* guy's shoulders, they may not be apt to throw away their life. Similarly, the closer they are connected to the world, the less likely they are to throw away their lives.2 -- The Effect of Death: Death is a big event, not just in the lives of the dying, but in the lives of those closest to them. NPC's can start viewing the PC party with apprehension -- how many people who have known them have died? How have they been killed? The ability of NPC reactions to sway PC opinion can be good. If they're not the Good Guys anymore, many will feel pretty bad...unless they want to run an evil campaign, and then, making them fear death is just not that feasable. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Have a funeral, show the PC's family and friends weeping over the fate, seeking someone to blame...if the players don't feel like they've caused a great sadness with their careless death, this can help that.3 -- No resurrection for you!: Perhaps the spirit is happy in the afterlife. Perhaps the gods will not release the soul. Perhaps they should be turned into Undead, bent on vengeance against their former friends. This is perhaps the cheapest method, but it's also the easiest. Simply say "Oh, you don't come back. The gods refuse to give your soul back, and, you know what, you're pretty friggin' happy in this idyllic paradise where no clerics try to kill you."I'm wondering how a party battle so large as to induce death was cause in the first place? In-party dissonance is not a good thing...a bit of conflict, fine, but this?</blockquote>

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