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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8069981" data-attributes="member: 29398">My experience is that it stays fairly deadly until somewhat higher level, but by 4th-ish level you've built up enough resources and contacts to enable revival from death leading to more continuity with characters.This is why - while I don't mind the idea of backgrounds etc. in the least - I personally don't put much effort into them (usually) until the character's been around a while and proven it's going to stick; and suggest the same to my players.The other factor is speed of char-gen.  Any system where (once familiar with the process) it takes more than 20 minutes to bang out a character needs a long hard look taken at it, as it's become too complex.</blockquote>