What do you do with character sheets for slain characters?

[MerakSpielman]

My group has taken to pinning their dead character sheets to the wall, right underneith the poster-sized campaign map. They draw little gravestones with the dates of their existence on them and stuff.

So far I've only killed two of their characters in this campaign, so it's not like I'm the Killer DM. They're just having fun with it.

 

[Crothian]

I tuck them away somewwhere usually, but sometimes players enjoy having the sheet experience the way the character dies.

 

[Wombat]

In my campaigns we keep an updated "graveyard" of characters (name, class, remark or two, famous last words, whatever), but rarely do we actually keep the character sheets.

Some players do, and that's cool, perhaps to use in other games or just as memories, which is all good.

 

[whydirt]

I eat them so I can gain their powers.

 

[caudor]

I keep them in a folder I call the 'bone yard'.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Most of them I keep in a folder, though there are a few I don't have anymore. Whenever a new player's first PC dies, I usually frame the character sheet with a sketch of the character for them. Everyone's liked it so far, and its a nice way to remember their first time.

 

[diaglo]

as a referee: whatever the player wants to do with them. i have some that the players gave me from days of yore. but most just got balled up and tossed in the fire/trash while the player rolled up a new one.

as a player: i file them away after giving a list of items to the group to pick over my bones.

 

[twofalls]

When I was younger, I used to save them for use later as NPC's in different campaigns. Over a period of about 10 years I had a fat folder of them. Anymore, I let the players keep the sheets and just inform them that I wont ever run that character in a game again. That leaves them free to use them in other GM's games. Though none of them do it seems.

 

[osarusan]

I pause the game so I can burn the dead character's sheet right there in front of the player's eyes, so they know what happens to them if they are next to die! >:-D

Er no wait... I keep them in a stack in the closet and sometimes we go looking through them to reminisce.

 

[billd91]

We post them on the Dead Wall with a note explaining their cause of death. We had quite a line up the last time I ran Cthulhu. But then, carrying around too much dynamite has a tendency to do that.