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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5637397" data-attributes="member: 50895">The 'not pre-explaining how the Death Mechanic works' in your DM's campaign is problematic, unless past games were the same and there was nothing to suggest it was different this time. The 'not being fair with different penalties' applied to different  players is definitely wrong. Otherwise whatever pre-agreed or pre-known penalties for PC Death is fine as long as everyone is treated equally and all are aware of it. In my commercial Kaidan setting PC Death and Reincarnation is the crux of all things. Those who die in Kaidan cannot be raised, nor resurrected, but are always reincarnated - but not as per Core rules. In Kaidan reincarnation is both twisted and unique, requiring each PC to maintain a karma score. At PC Death you roll a d20, add this to your karma score which determines whom you will come back as, how much of your previous life you are aware of, what skills and equipment you have now. For a party finding your recently lost and reincarnated companion might be a small adventure in itself. Since Kaidan uses a heavy handed social caste system, the reincarnated PC could have migrated to a different social caste. Even going from a farmer to a samurai. (Kaidan is a Japan inspired horror setting for Pathfinder). In Kaidan you can't not reincarnate, as its hard-wired into the system, however, because of this you can't really permanently die. (Note: you can be sentenced to Hell and become an NPC, you could come back as an infant and are an NPC, but only 1% chance of that, or you could become a malicious yurei spirit (Japanese ghost) and be an NPC, or a PC with the appropriate yurei ghost template. PC Death and reincarnation is at the heart of the horror of Kaidan. Its actually more twisted than what's described above, but you get the gist of it.</blockquote>

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