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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 36193" data-attributes="member: 203">The party I DM does everything it can not to have ANY casualties in any encounter.  They have become very attached to their characters over the last 2 years and when the first PC death occured (about 6 months ago) the player was very upset and almost didn't want to come back to the game.  I didn't want to kill his PC (I hate doing it but we have had 3 more PC deaths in the meantime) but to me it would have been very 'unrealistic' (bleh) to have him survive the situation he got himself into.  The PCs were very fortunate they had forged such good relations with the local temples (and they were on a mission for one of them too).  The PC was raised and had an even stronger tie to the temple after his monk was visited (in the 'afterlife') by 3 gods - one good, one neutral and one evil and they asked him to choose (he was LN and said before this that he would follow his own inner light rather than a god).  It led to some great RPing on his part and added a great deal of depth to his character.Death is rarely the 'end' for a PC - unless s/he's 1st level <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>