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Message: <blockquote data-quote="danzig138" data-source="post: 3073874" data-attributes="member: 3595">You'd think so, wouldn't you? Not IME though. of course, when it's happened IMG, a few deaths in rapid succession generally meant in round 2, round 6, round 8, etc.  <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=":)" /> Seriously, though, it was pretty common for the characters to not e able to completely salvage the dead comrade's belongings because they were too busy fleeing the scene. There were a few times when they came back to the scene and dead PC gear was used against them. More often, by the time they came back, the bad guys had captured and sold the loot for ale and whores. In my Greyhawk game, outside of a few places, like the Free City of, they were no places to buy magic items. You could commission things, but no magic shoppes. I agree that this could be a balance problem if you give characters free access to purchasing magic. But even then, scaling back on future treasure in a subtle manner fixes things. For many years now, one of the rules I instituted for my games was simple - if your character died and wasn't raised, or you retired your character, the next character couldn't be the same race or class as the previous character - unless it was human. You could still play humans. But this cut down on the same guy different name school of character design. Ultimately, the problem I have with long-lost heirs, wills, giving it to the new guy, etc, is that it damages my belief in the setting. As a player and DM, I'd much rather handle it in a realistic manner - the group does what the group does with the loot, and if it is out of hand, manipulating the treasure in a low-key way for a few encounters. I understand that this doesn't work for some folk, but I've always been the type of GM and player to sacrifice balance in favor of the world feeling more right for me. **Not related to the treasure thing- I used to know a DM that I played with a few times. If someone couldn't make it to the game, he had their character literally disappear for the session. Not abducted, no interesting subplots, just disappear. And then when the player showed up, the character just reappeared. I ended up not being able to enjoy his games because of things like that.</blockquote>

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