What happens when a character dies in your campaign?

[Darklone]

You never killed a PC???

Do you fudge dice rolls?

 

[d4]

You never killed a PC???

Do you fudge dice rolls?

occasionally. i've been GMing for over 20 years now, so i have a pretty good sense of what the players are capable of and what's too much for them.

in the few cases where i judge wrong, i more often fudge enemy tactics than die rolls. (and in both cases, i work very hard to make it as seamless and unnoticeable as possible.)

 

[ichabod]

They get a new character one session's worth of xp behind the lowest level player character.

I once played in a campaign where the DM refused to kill characters (a Rolemaster campaign even, the game of random death). One player got irritated with that, so he made a character who was completely and utterly reckless, and would just walk down obviously trapped hallways.

 

[Darklone]

@d4:
Guess it depends on the group. I had one group where the players asked me to roll hidden and fudge and another group where everything is rolled in the open...

 

[d4]

@d4:
Guess it depends on the group. I had one group where the players asked me to roll hidden and fudge and another group where everything is rolled in the open...

yep. there's nothing wrong with either style of gaming -- everyone has different preferences for what they want out of the game.

(and that's the last i'll say on that, since i don't want to derail the thread.)

 

[cildarith]

New characters should start at 1st level. Why isn't that an option???

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

It depends if a Player starts a new character because thier being whiny about how their character turned out then they start at level 1 just for making me have to waste my paper on copies. However I have two players that cannot Die...ones a Vampire Lord who managed to meet all of my Requirment s( the Vampire Lord is on the WOTC website) to become one and thier nay impossable to kill. Then i have a Dwarf who did a powerful Wizard a Favor and in return had her create a one charge stone that casts true Rersurection on the person its Attuned to...however the players can afford to recharge anyitem they desire and they can afford the cost of a wish to bring back their Aasimar friend and thei rDruid friend from the dead.
Death really is not very Permenant but i put them in situations were a Resurrection wont be readily available at the moment.

 

[diaglo]

Blackleaf died of poison, and her player hanged herself. Diaglo, you're squandering all of your credibility with this sort of misinformation!

Oops..

i'm just showing my age...i think...memory is

something.

what were we talking about?

 

[EricNoah]

Average party level. Sometimes there's a good reason why another PC has fewer XP than average -- item creation being the main one.

 

[WanderingMonster]

Average character level in the party. That way I don't have to "dumb" down the encounters in order to give the new PC a fighting chance to survive.