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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeoneer" data-source="post: 6219163" data-attributes="member: 91777">Ah, okay, I see what you two are getting at. I don't believe it has a cost. At least not when cast in spell form. The third casting onward must be performed as a ritual instead of a simple spell, so presumably the GM could impose a cost at that point.It's hard for me to say how rare character death is in 13A. But I don't think rolling up disposable iterations of the same character is going to be an option in most cases. I mean, first of all, the DM would have to allow it. Would you?! Secondly, unlike in D&D characters have mechanical links to the game world and story: Icon relationships, backgrounds and 'One Unique Thing'. Character OUT's ought to cut-down on cookie-cutter characters since pretty much by definition you shouldn't have two characters with the same 'unique' thing.  More importantly, these mechanics should ideally make the player more invested in their character and in the game world. A player's OUT is explicitly intended to give them some design input into the world, and Icon roles give them some influence on how the story plays out. Nagol is right that in some types of games, and 13A could definitely be one, character death might really throw people for a loop. 13A features an optional rule where characters can only be killed by Named Villains. This rule doesn't appeal to me personally, but I suppose in a long campaign where people were heavily invested in their characters it might be worth considering.</blockquote>

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