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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6605379" data-attributes="member: 13107">Additional text omitted.I think we may be running into an issue of what "death" means in a game.There are games where a player death means sitting out for a while waiting for a time to bring in a new character.  And losing narrative continuity because of the loss of the history tied up with the character.In other games, a player death is quickly resolved with a replacement character, with either very little loss of story (say, the game is a long random crawl), or with a mechanism to bring a new character into the story that preserves the back story and game history.Both are possible.  Each is a very different stake than the other.At a convention, say, where the game has an expected short duration (one to several rounds of play), and with lots of additional activities, the first meaning works, largely because of setting.In a long running campaign with long play histories which are tightly coupled with the overall game story, the first works rather badly.Thx!TomB</blockquote>