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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3345952" data-attributes="member: 2067">Like Molonel is saying, you've just got a different safety net from others. You don't like this particular safety net, and that's fine, but unless your characters are dying in droves and switching out characters on a near-weekly basis at the mid-to-high levels, you have another safety net in place. For some people it's action points, for some people it's karma, for some, they just don't throw tough or deadly monsters/villains at their party. Whatever safety net you use, you're going to loose some realism in favor of character continuity.It isn't necessarily shoddy and crappy writing. Think of Dante, think of Buffy, think of any NUMBER of superhero comic books where the defeated foe rises again. Even LotR had resurrection of a sort: Sauron, destroyed, was trying to come back. Think of biblical stories, not necessarily Jesus, but Lazarus. Think of the Phoenix, rising from its own destruction. Think of the un-killable hydra, the troll who could regrow any part of himself, the hero who was made immortal rather than die (hundreds of classical mythological exapmles). Think of Satan after the fall, think of any character who was bloodied and beaten, but managed to come back from the brink, sometimes once, sometimes hundreds of times. Heck, even Frodo may have been "resurrected" by the elves when he was poisoned.Resurrection is there, just as it is in D&D: characters fail at their goals and are seemingly destroyed, but they come back, ready to face the challenges again. But this point is entirely separate from the point of the thread, because good writing, as has been said millions of times, does not make for good gaming.But you're wrong. Resurrection, under the guise of "almost died" exists almost everyplace in heroic fiction. Any character brought back from the brink of demise whole (or nearly so) has undergone D&D-style resurrection.</blockquote>

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