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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4847206" data-attributes="member: 29398">Funny this should come up right now; this last weekend pretty much by random chance an opportunity for just this sort of thing arose in the game I was running and I ran with it, and at some point I'll explore it further.What happened: a PC in the party returns to his hometown a year or two after leaving (not by his own choice), to find most of his old rough-crowd friends have died by one means or another.  He finds only one guy remaining from the old crew; the reunion goes well until the PC mentions that he too had died but has been revived, at which point the old friend looks at him aghast: "You're one of the risen?  Back away!", then gets up and leaves at high speed.  So the PC now has no friends at all in his hometown.The broader idea here is that those who have died and been revived (and who admit to it or are found out) are somehow shunned by society - maybe it's superstition, maybe being dead-and-back makes you (in their eyes) half-undead, or whatever.  But the possibilities for RP "penalties" are nearly endless. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lan-"don't die, it's bad for your health"-efan</blockquote>