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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8708000" data-attributes="member: 50987">I'm a distant outlier in this conversation, but here goes...  I ran a 'no death' campaign a few years ago.The entire game world took place on the Plane of Ysgard...the player characters were once great heroes on the Material World, and when they died they passed on to their eternal reward in the mead halls of Valhalla.  Here they would enjoy endless mead and the tales of valor of their ancestors!  Here they would meet the heroes of the pantheon, from the mighty Thor and wise Odin, to the beautiful Freya and the cunning Loki!  What a reward!  What paradise!(record scratch)  And they discovered that they were all 1st level commoners.  Turns out, the myths weren't entirely forthcoming about the afterlife, and the Norse gods are all jerks.  Yes, the characters would spend eternity in the mead halls as promised--they'd be the ones pouring the mead and mopping it up.  And yes they would hear countless tales of valor and battle--they'd hear them over and over again,  day in and day out, at work.  They might dwell in the Halls of Valhalla, but they arrived at the very lowest rung of the ladder.So, anyway.  Ysgard is a place of eternal battle and glory.  People who die here don't stay dead--instead, they rise at dawn of the next day, ready for another glorious day of battle and valor and chest-thumping.   (This was for the 3rd Edition game, so planar descriptions might vary.)  The party of heroes wanted to avoid death because it made them look sloppy and weak and decidedly UN-heroic, but it wasn't "fatal" in the mortal sense of the word.The party needed to find a sponsor (basically pick the Norse god they wanted to work for), convince that sponsor to take them under their wing.  Then they would have to work their way up, overhearing stories of quests and taking missions under-the-table at one of the many Mead Halls, and grow their status.  Along the way they would learn of Loki's plot to kill the World-Tree and conquer Ysgard...it was a whole big Thing.</blockquote>

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