Even when said character talks down to the npcs and literally gives them attitude? I understand many believe I am being possibly very biased, but as the personality of th.npcs there has been a number of incidences to lead me to this point, it was not just an isolated incident
Hey everyone, just wanted to get some opinions on how you deal with character death, I have a specific situation I am finding frustrating. My party is playing through Jade Regent, currently they are traveling the Crown of the World (Arctic)where during the trip to spicen up the travel, they were taken into the Harrowed Realm, however there lifeless bodies remained on Golorian while the NPCs continue the travel and watch over them. Now, 1 character has already died while in the harrowed realm and accepted a reincarnate because it was all that was available and was excited about it as she came back as a male half-orc when she was originally a female halfling witch, having lots of fun with it. Now, I have another character who I have posted about before, who got himself in a bad situation and was killed by a creature+environment. Instead of seeking out a reincarnate, he is refusing it as it might "gimp" his character. Instead he insisted on the party using a special item the party received which can raise dead once per month however it basically sends a message to the main group of villains who are trying to find you telling them your specific location. The party refused him this option as it was not worth the risk. Now the party needs to escape the harrowed realm still so he was told he could play a NPC for the next couple of sessions as they have no way of finding a diamond worth 5000gp. The problem still remains that when they get out of the harrowed realm they still have weeks to travel to the nearest civilization and find a diamond for raise dead or resurrection. To make matters worse, when I told him he would be playing a NPC if he wanted to go this way and warned him he would be leaving the party at a disadvantage ( I feel being selfish ) said "Well can't we just assume the boss we fight has a diamond?" This made me angry, basically dictating to me what treasure we should find and saying character death should go unpunished. How do you guys deal with character death in this sense? let them pop raise dead spells like candy? I have been considering doing a 1st free raise dead, 2nd 20% fail, 3rd 50% fail, 4th it doesn't work as the spirit begins to reject coming back. Just feel the game has no threat if there is no fear of being destroyed aside from a TPK, when even a NPC could collect a part of a body. |
