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So how do you feel about character death?

So in my Eberron game last weekend a couple of pc's closed to mellee with a vampire got drained in the process. They were hurting him only a little(at least compared to what they do to folks without DR). At one point they had both been hit twice and lost 4 levels.that meant one of them was at effectively first level. If he got hit again he was going to be killed and rise as a vampire. he was advised that chances are he would not survive if he kept it up and he withdrew. This has propmpted me to ask if in the small enviroment of a table top game does the death of a character mean that you would stop the campaign or continue with a new character? How about if half the party dies? Does having a tabletop character die bother you? Larp characters are a different critter because you become more involved with them(most of the time). I was wondering what people thought about dead characters in a tabletop.

Note: I would Realy like to here from my players on this as well.

Comments

[evangelos.livejournal.com]

Character death in a tabletop game bothers me by varying amounts depending on what sort of penalty goes along with it.

Like Shieldhaven, I hate level loss, period. Haaaate. In fact, it is absolutely not possible to ever level down in any of my games (though you cannot voluntarily spend XP below your level threshold, such as when making magic items). Death, removing negative levels, whatever.

A more random system, with Tarot cards that produce various alterations to the character (or something similar) is preferable to me.

Assuming resurrection is possible, i'd probably keep playing the character, though losing a level significantly impacts my enjoyment of a game.