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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 6146146" data-attributes="member: 18701">I just don't hold that much value to my PC gear. It probably has to do with my introduction to D&D being 2nd Edition Dark Sun, PCs having very little gear of worth in that setting, and the fact that I lost all of my gear on 3 separate occasions in that campaign. So I was molded to be like that I guess.I actually find it fun when my character is trying to recover from a loss of wealth like that. It makes my PC more pro-active and provides him with a lot of adventures and stories to tell. It's actually really annoying to me when a player would rather die than lose an item. I can't stand that attitude & unfortunately, too many players seem to be like that. Oh, I get pissed when I lose my stuff (not at the DM or anything). But I ain't going to act like a baby about it by killing off the PC. If anything, I feel like my PC is more badass when he finally recovers from the loss.I also don't like to metagame my character deaths. For one thing, at low levels, I'd rather lose my gear than lose my XP. I can see the logic about it at higher levels when you can avoid XP loss and still keep all the gear. But I like a challenge, and I'd rather surrender, be stripped of gear, and then try to escape and get it back. I think it's kind of lame if I die and get resurrected often. It cheapens the immersion of playing a character if I'm acting as if dying isn't a big deal and I place more value on my gear than my life. That's when my character starts feeling like nothing more than a video game character than a real guy.I understand my attitude about it might be hard to except in a high fantasy game like D&D. That's why I understand when a player of mine reacts the way they do when they have to make a choice; die, or lose everything; and they choose death. I understand it and I deal with it, but I don't like it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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