Dealing with Death in Pathfinder


Beginner Box


In general, what happens when you die?

If a character goes unconscious, and comes back to life via healing, I understand that they would keep all their gear.

What happens if all the characters die on a quest?
Do they lose all their weapons, armor and gold?
Would they lose XP at all?

What do you do in your game?

Thanks,

DK


Really depends on the circumstances of the character death.

At low levels where it is impossible or far too expensive to bring the character back to life, common adventurer etiquette is loot their corpse for gear and treasure like any other body found in a dungeon. If possible, retrieve the body as well for a proper burial.

If the character died and the rest of the party was forced to retreat, then they might have to abandon the body and what the character was carrying until they can regroup and defeat the monster that killed them.

At higher levels resurrection becomes easier as the party generally has the funds to pay for one, either hired or cast by members of the party. If they character's soul can't or won't return for one reason or another, looting the corpse is still the most common thing to do, followed by a proper burial.


Yep, if they die at low level, normally they are dead, time to roll up new characters.

IF you can get to the old characters corpse, obviously you can loot it as stated above.


Pathfinder Lost Omens Subscriber

so, if you die, you're dead unless someone can resurrect you, which is expensive. so you either lose everything or you get resurrected and any repercussions that form of revival comes with.

XP is up to GM.


If all the characters die on a quest, this is called a TPK (total party kill) and you have the option of everyone rolling up new characters and starting over, or having something or someone bring them back for some reason, maybe years later. Or you could treat it like a video game and say they start over at a previous point, but I don't like doing that.

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