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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Wolf" data-source="post: 1059031" data-attributes="member: 10407">I am curious to hear how people handle this in their games.&nbsp; I have been running two different campaigns with the same players.&nbsp; We play one campaign for a few months and then switch to the other on and off.&nbsp; In one of the campaigns at a climax point a TPK occured.&nbsp; We were planning to switch to the other campaign soon anyway, so that is what we did.&nbsp; I did not immediately say that the other characters were permanantly dead, I feel I am a fairly liberal DM and allow for things such as Raise Dead, Resurrections, even Deity miracles.&nbsp; In this case, due to no surviving party members I eventually decided that these characters would not be coming back (the bodies should have been eaten by a gelatinous cube).Now I am finding out that at least one of my players (and rumor has it a few others as well) is bothered by the &quot;permanant death&quot; of their character. &nbsp;I am unsure how to go on from here, as I am afraid of losing this and other players.&nbsp; Do I allow them to make up new PC's as a rescue party to claim the bodies or something along those lines?&nbsp; For the sake of some grit and realism do I just say that PC death is part of the game, and without that risk the game loses something (which is my opinion) and take a chance of losing a player(s)?So, I am open to opinions and advice.&nbsp; Thanks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Wolf, post: 1059031, member: 10407"] I am curious to hear how people handle this in their games. I have been running two different campaigns with the same players. We play one campaign for a few months and then switch to the other on and off. In one of the campaigns at a climax point a TPK occured. We were planning to switch to the other campaign soon anyway, so that is what we did. I did not immediately say that the other characters were permanantly dead, I feel I am a fairly liberal DM and allow for things such as Raise Dead, Resurrections, even Deity miracles. In this case, due to no surviving party members I eventually decided that these characters would not be coming back (the bodies should have been eaten by a gelatinous cube). Now I am finding out that at least one of my players (and rumor has it a few others as well) is bothered by the "permanant death" of their character. I am unsure how to go on from here, as I am afraid of losing this and other players. Do I allow them to make up new PC's as a rescue party to claim the bodies or something along those lines? For the sake of some grit and realism do I just say that PC death is part of the game, and without that risk the game loses something (which is my opinion) and take a chance of losing a player(s)? So, I am open to opinions and advice. Thanks! [/QUOTE]

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