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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 4630876" data-attributes="member: 31216">No, not to a piece of paper. To the character that you've played for a year to get him to 10th level. I'm not saying you'd (or I'd) cry over the dead character, but if I'd just spent a year playing the character up to name level, I'd have some attachment to it. I think even you would have a reaction at least a notch above, "oh well, hand me 4d6."Now, of course, if your DM let you create new characters at the same level as the dead one, and you had a revolving door of leveled characters over the past year, then I could see not caring. After all, it's just a playing piece, like the top hat in Monopoly.I've been playing a character for about six months, now, and even though I'm far from sentimental (or emotional) about my D&D characters (I've lost many over the years), I'd miss playing him if he died. I wouldn't shed a tear, or even get a lump in my throat, but I wouldn't just dismiss the character sheet like it was a piece of scrap paper that I wrote a telephone number on."Emotional attachment" does not mean you get slobbery tearful over it. I bet you have some emotional attachment to your favorite game, and would miss it if you couldn't play it anymore -- and it's just paper.Bullgrit</blockquote>