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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7289024" data-attributes="member: 3400">But who or what determines whether a death is premature or not? If it's defined by the player and he or she doesn't feel ready to stop playing that PC, then you want an easy route back from death that's relatively cheap. If you're content to let the game as it plays out determine when it's the right time for the PC to die, then it doesn't need to be easy or cheap. Either way, there isn't one single source of authorship in an RPG like there is in a novel or movie. There's the player, the other players, the GM, and the game as it plays out all submitting their input into the story being generated. Which one of those inputs will you give the authority over whether or not a death is appropriately time to?</blockquote>