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Message: <blockquote data-quote="twjensen" data-source="post: 193301" data-attributes="member: 3124">VitalityAfter my friend who is playing a star wars campaign described their vitality / wounds system I *seriously* considered it for my D&D campaign.  After working it all out and having about as many pages of remarkably similar text to what was posted here I decided it was too complicated and didn't use it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />As for the death thing, I'm using an annoying geas system instead.  The gods involved (the cleric's god and the dead character's god) make a deal behind the screen (players unaware).Then the dead character is presented with a quest and asked if he/she will complete the quest in return for a new chance at life.If the character accepts, he/she awakens and feels the presense of an unbreakable geas for completing the quest.  But as we know, pagan gods are capricious liars.  So the geas will almost certainly have. . . other. . . components.  But, true to form, once the *primary* quest is complete the geas goes away.Players *really* don't want their characters to die, but no annoying re-levelling or stat adjustments!  Plus, there's a lot of cool storytelling possibilities.  It also leaves open DM interpretation on the type of death.  Death by stupidity and you'll get a *super* annoying quest.  Death by bravery and standing up for right and justice and your quest will probably be something the party really should do anyway.</blockquote>

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