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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drjones" data-source="post: 6389742" data-attributes="member: 62944">You can say that death is too easy to recover from (at higher levels, when starting out or as a commoner you pretty much always stay dead) but that is balanced against how often PCs die.  Once players have resources to deal with death it is much less of a buzzkill to be attacking downed characters to finish them off, having save or die abilities used, having traps full of magma and such that can obliterate a character if they mess up.  Sure, it 'only' costs money and time to haul the corpse back to the big city to get raised but when you are doing that three times a day you will start to feel A. bankrupt and B. like maybe you should be more careful.Oh and just because you can afford to be raised from the dead does not mean you can grow back the arm that was eaten or replace the eye that was shot out without considerable further effort so you might be back on your feet but you will bear a reminder of the death that might have mechanical effects for quite a while.</blockquote>