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<blockquote data-quote="Hackenslash" data-source="post: 1049521" data-attributes="member: 11770"><p>YES.....my own sentiments exactly.....but tring to convince my group will be another story.....they just don't see it that way. I am not very impressed with gung ho attitudes to new characters, just to &quot;try them out&quot; with out thought to development and/or backgrounds and also it does effect the over all roleplaying experience, group continuity, effectiveness and in fact takes something away from the roleplaying aspect of the game IMHO. So I am definitely in favor of raising or resurecting but with some sort of penality to keep continuity in the party and to generate some further opportunities for roleplaying and quests etc...However we come to the old &quot;I'm fed up with this character and I wanna play a new one...&quot; scenario. But what are they really fed up with....and if fed up...why did they play the character in the first place. As this is a game, surely a character that was created a few sessions ago and has died is worth at least one raising, if only to explore more possibilites for the character. Being raised IMO is a life changing, soul churning and very moving experience and has got excellent possibilites for roleplaying and character development. Alignment, Outlook and over all character personality could change dramatically because of it and that in itself could generate a &quot;new character&quot; as it could be played in a different way, whilst still keeping party continuity. I just think that raisings/resurrections should be more of an option than what they are for most players and I will be developing a system for this in my new campaign. Yes, people can still create new characters if they absolutly have to, but they will undergo a tough scrutiny and some penalty to make sure they fit into the party and not just create any old character just to see what it's like, irrespective of whether it fits in or not. Any other thoughts or ideas...Cheers all and thank you all very much for voteing in my poll and voiceing your comments.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Hackenslash, post: 1049521, member: 11770"] YES.....my own sentiments exactly.....but tring to convince my group will be another story.....they just don't see it that way. I am not very impressed with gung ho attitudes to new characters, just to "try them out" with out thought to development and/or backgrounds and also it does effect the over all roleplaying experience, group continuity, effectiveness and in fact takes something away from the roleplaying aspect of the game IMHO. So I am definitely in favor of raising or resurecting but with some sort of penality to keep continuity in the party and to generate some further opportunities for roleplaying and quests etc...However we come to the old "I'm fed up with this character and I wanna play a new one..." scenario. But what are they really fed up with....and if fed up...why did they play the character in the first place. As this is a game, surely a character that was created a few sessions ago and has died is worth at least one raising, if only to explore more possibilites for the character. Being raised IMO is a life changing, soul churning and very moving experience and has got excellent possibilites for roleplaying and character development. Alignment, Outlook and over all character personality could change dramatically because of it and that in itself could generate a "new character" as it could be played in a different way, whilst still keeping party continuity. I just think that raisings/resurrections should be more of an option than what they are for most players and I will be developing a system for this in my new campaign. Yes, people can still create new characters if they absolutly have to, but they will undergo a tough scrutiny and some penalty to make sure they fit into the party and not just create any old character just to see what it's like, irrespective of whether it fits in or not. Any other thoughts or ideas...Cheers all and thank you all very much for voteing in my poll and voiceing your comments. [/QUOTE]

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