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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knightofround" data-source="post: 4508494" data-attributes="member: 27884">As a player, I usually let dead dogs lie, unless the dead character is central to the plot. D&D isn't very fun to me unless there's a real danger of you losing a character you care alot about. I hate playing in games where DMs pull punches so every player plays 1 PC from campaign start to finish.Usually what I do is plan backup characters in advance. Either family, guild-mates, former rivals/allies/whatever. I hand these characters over to the DM ahead of time, so they can introduce these characters as NPCs ahead of time if they like...and I update their character sheets during playing downtime.As a DM when a PC dies, if the PCs can recover the body I don't think its out-of-line to let them keep the loot. I don't see it much different than taking your dead buddy's rifle because your current one is out of ammo. If your dead buddy's sword is a family heirloom it might be different.As far as ingame treasure balance goes, there's plenty of cooler ways to go about adjusting it -- thieves, market prices, decay, etc. The DM-fiat is lame, and the "nekid high level PC" gets old after one or two uses.As a side note, in one of the campaigns I was running, a mid-level rogue PC died. The other PCs didn't care for her very much, so they fully looted the body and passed around the stuff. They didn't even bother informing her kin that she died. She was resurrected an in-game year later by her brother (who became an adventurer himself to find her) and together they tracked down the group, and robbed *them* blind. =P I had to adjust encounter stats downward for a good 5-6 sessions (it was RttToEE) until they were able to get back up to their proper treasure level.</blockquote>

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