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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 3371724" data-attributes="member: 3854">A- Character does something “heroic” and dies. If the party is low level, the surviving friends carry the hero’s body to a friendly temple and arrange a raise/resurrection for some expense. If the party is high level, they might can perform the raise/resurrection themselves, still at some expense. The revived hero character can return to the adventures, and the player has a grand story about his character.B- Character does something “heroic” and dies. The party buries the hero. They then accept a new character into their adventures, and the player has a grand story about a previous character.My character dies in a fight with the party against a terrible red dragon to protect the capital city. Taking on that beast saved thousands of people from death by fire, and kept the king and army alive and intact to hold the civilization from falling to barbarians. Are his actions in defense of the kingdom lessened because he can be raised? What about the characters who didn’t die – are they less heroic than the one who fell?How often do PCs die in heroic actions? In my experience, PCs more often die in non-heroic actions (unless you count as heroic stuff like fighting orc raiders in the wilderness).Or…A- Character gets caught by a crit and dies. If the party is low level, the surviving friends carry the character’s body to a friendly temple and arrange a raise/resurrection for some expense. If the party is high level, they might can perform the raise/resurrection themselves, still at some expense. The revived character can return to the adventures, and the player has a story about his character.B- Character gets caught by a crit and dies. The party buries the character. They then accept a new character into their adventures, and the player has a story about a previous character.There’s nothing definitively heroic about dying. Doing a great deed and living is no different than doing a great deed, dying, and then being raised. The deed was still heroic.Quasqueton</blockquote>

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