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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7639443" data-attributes="member: 20564">13th Age (a great d20) had an interesting sidebar from [MENTION=74672]Jonathan Tweet[/MENTION].  Basically part of the social contract with his group is that he wouldn't kill PCs with unnamed foes.  That doesn't mean that a PCs who had been killed wasn't out for the count, just not dead.  Of course, the unnamed tribesman who "killed" a PC could then be taking them to their named Shaman to be sacrificed to the Volcano God, but that's just a fun scene for the PCs to stop the sacrifice and rescue them.  So "death" still had a repercussion, but it wasn't the end of that character's story.For context, 13th Age has nothing like Revivify and the higher level options are hard and have limits on how often total they will work - they are not the get-out-of-jail-for-some-diamonds of 5e.</blockquote>