Have you ever refused to come back from the dead?

[WhatGravitas]

There's a player in our game who has a 'no resurrections' policy - ie he always refuses them for his PCs - which I find somewhat implausible. Most living things want to go on living. It's effectively the same as choosing to commit suicide.

Nonono - a PC who has died has usually died in combat, while he was living and embracing his ideals - that's stuff their patron gods usually like (and with the variety of gods, you almost always find a more or less suiting one) - therefore a PC will get a pretty nice afterlife, or at least something quite suitable for them.

And then the stupid mundane cleric tries to drag you away from your well-deserved final reward? Unless the PC has some serious business to finish, I don't see that much reason, especially given the fact, that the afterlife will certainly reshape the point of view of a character.

Of course, once he's back, he may lose that elated state of being, therefore having no particular will to die again.

 

[cmrscorpio]

There's a player in our game who has a 'no resurrections' policy - ie he always refuses them for his PCs - which I find somewhat implausible. Most living things want to go on living. It's effectively the same as choosing to commit suicide.

So, if you're a paladin who has lived a hard life wrought with tragedy and heartbreak fighting back the forces of evil, you're going to turn down your reward of basking in the glory of your deity for all eternity in order to continue suffering?

 

[Darklone]

I had a no rez policy for many of my chars.

 

[the_mighty_agrippa]

Yeah, especially for really devout characters that died without a huge RTTOEE mission going on.

Hell, I once played a cleric of Sune. I figure a charismatic, good-looking guy sent to a paradise of scantily clad chicas with supernatural beauty and no need to support a family would look at a medieval fantasy world and go "meh."

 

[GAAAHHH]

I've never died yet, so no. I haven't had the opportunity to refuse a chance to come back from the dead. I have had quite a few characters die, but most of those didn't get a chance for coming back either.

 

[Baron Opal]

Yes. Usually I have a different character that I'm interested in playing. Once it was a Gandalf moment; my character held the valley with his magic long enough for the others to reach safety. They had a lock of his hair and when they asked me I said no. Sardonicus was a mean, cruel bastard who was redeemed at the end and gave his life for others and the greater good. Anything else beyond a State Funeral would be anti-climatic.

 

[the black knight]

Yes. I once played an unappreciated cleric who, when he died, was found to have a note on him, reading, 'Don't bother to bring me back. Oh, and good luck with your healing, ingrates.'

 

[JDragon]

Yes.

After a serries of campaigns where death was a semi-regular occurance, but raise dead was always available, even in some crazy no way to have found the body situations I had lost the fear of death for my characters.

So in a OA campaign my Samarui's family tradition was not to be returned to life as long as his and his Family's Honor was in good standing at the time of his death. So when he went down fighting a demon of somekind that was it and I moved on to a new character.

JD

 

[BlackMoria]

I thought about the question and then a surprising revelatlion struck me. I've been playing (not just DMing) since 1974 and the last character that I had that died dated back to a campaign in 1981-1982.

At that time, I declined being raised, as I recall. Don't remember the reason why.

 

[Nifft]

Nope. Died once, came back once (via reincarnation).

Haven't died since.

Cheers, -- N