Have you ever refused to come back from the dead?

[rgard]

Title. If so, why?

Personally, I've had a Sorcerer who refused a Ressurrection because I wanted to play something more durable.

I never refused if it was available. I did have one player who refused to have his wizard raised after the BBEG's minion lopped off his PC's head with a vorpal sword.

I guess it's just personal taste. The player in question was one of the most mature and level headed players I've ever DM'd.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[RFisher]

Yes.

Because the PC's death was my own fault. It'd feel a bit like cheating to have him come back. Because we already had two PCs per player in that campaign, so it was hard to get too attached to any of them. Because I didn't want to pass up the chance to create a new PC.

I never really bothered to consider any in-game rationalization for it. Although embarrassment at having died a fool's death might have worked.

Similarly, I had a first level PC lose a hand once. (Strangely, a number of my PCs in various game systems have lost hands.) The party choose to sacrifice a magic item in a magic-item-to-wish well to get it back, which I argued against. Magic items seemed more valuable. Besides, once he'd come to grips with it, the PC started to see it as a sort of badge of honor. A visible sign that he was a "true adventurer" now.

 

[Dragon Snack]

Almost ALL my players refuse to be brought back. I think it has more to do getting new magic items (since the party usually loots most of the items from their friends) than any highfalutin notions of "peace in the afterlife".

I've refused to be brought back when I played. Sadly, the last 2 times because I was sick of the campaign and didn't want to return (and they both also happened to be Clerics).

 

[WhimsyTheFae]

Yes, definately. For various reasons, including:

1) It would have endangered the party
2) It fit the character's MO
3) I was ready for a different character

 

[Deset Gled]

Yes. Too many character concepts and so little time to play them all.

Ditto. My martial artist died? Too bad, time to try out that new cleric build I've been eyeing.

 

[Ender_rpm]

I refused rezzing because I was doen with that group and wanted to move on. A player once refused ressurection because he had played his character form 1st level to 12th, and was tired of it. The character was also taken out by a dragon in a MAJOR plot-climax battle, going out heroically and all that. We mourned that one

 

[Bacris]

Thankfully, I've had few instances where I've needed it, but there have been a few times where said death was because the character concept just didn't fit the campaign - so instead of making the best out of a bad situation, I just rolled up a new character.

I've had some groupmates who RPed characters who specifically said at the start of the game "if I die, just let me stay dead" and then would tell us "yeah, he's not willing to be resurrected" Some folks like that true touch of mortality

 

[Wombat]

My character was a priest. I had gone to my Final Reward. Why would I want to come back? The player who brought me back was spitting-angry with me, but I had already made my thoughts very, very well known on the topic and the rest of the group agreed with me.

 

[Starglim]

Sort of, as a result of miscommunication. But I've seen it done by others and could certainly imagine characters who would not be interested to return.

 

[The_Gneech]

I haven't had the situation come up -- most of my characters who've died were clones in Paranoia.

I did have one character who I had decided wouldn't announce that he was low on HP any more, because the DM had built the campaign around him and I was tired of being "obliged" to play him -- whenever he got in danger of dying the monsters suddenly noticed the party barbarian and started ignoring me (for instance). So I was getting ready for the next big fight to say, "Oops, that just sent my character to -10 hit points. He dies!" But fortunately the DM did a campaign mini-reboot and that gave me the opportunity to switch to another character.

See also: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=814

-The Gneech