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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9534955" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Yeah, perfectly understandable. I just wanted to clarify what you meant.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up    (y)"  data-smilie="22"data-shortname="(y)" />I don't really care about the history of D&D, whilst I've played the older editions, I was never a huge fan of any of them. I have my issues with 5e, but it is easily the best D&D has ever been. And the combination I want is very easy to achieve in 5e. Characters in 5e (at least past level five or so) are super hard to kill, so that is death being rare already covered, and then I just ban resurrection magic and we're done.Yeah, I think that is rather different situation. I just thinking about your dragon earring setup. Do the players know it is path to potential resurrection? Because sometimes, to some people, such Deus Exes would actually cheapen the narrative if they're suddenly sprung on them. But different people react to these things differently.One of my negative past gaming experiences was a game where the GM obviously didn't want the characters to die, so they kept contriving reasons for us to survive, even though sensibly we shouldn't have. And it annoyed me so I started to intentionally play my character super recklessly, in attempt to get them killed. (Not most mature approach, but that was long time ago.) In the end, I didn't manage to kill my character, though I don't think it was very long campaign. But to me that was way worse than my character just dying, it destroyed all the tension and made the events seem super artificial. And ultimately made me feel that I had no agency; I was no allowed to fail, so success was meaningless. And it is not an experience I want as player, nor it is an experience I want to provide to my players. And I'm not saying that you're doing this, but I am trying to explain what I want to avoid.Our opinions are shaped by our past experiences, I think your frequent low level TPKs might have shaped your approach into a different direction.</blockquote>

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