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Thanks for all the stories, I ended up having another player join my group and he was leading/protecting the leader of a rival temple. the leader died by trading his life-force to the dead player. The leader was expected at the temple. now the new player is wanted and has a bounty on his head. Due to this it may led to a war. so this death added to my game. Not that the players know it

also want to say sorry for using so much MMORPG lingo, I am much more familiar with it than PPRPG terms when it comes to online things.

Also here some of the info i forgot to add, there are five players and the player who died was a Fairy. (home build using the advance race guide) all of them are level four and have decently high stats.

but thank you everyone for the responses. it has given me quite a bit to think about. I just think its a bit cheap to kill a player just as they finished making it. Also it was a major flaw in how i handled the encounter.

I like a great many of the ideas, retcon is a solid choice. but i like the others as well....choices i have are much better now than what i had before.

gyainmaster wrote:

Okay so to give a bases of what was going on, I was setting up the world for them and just told them of their mission and that Lord Rios was the main bad guy working against them to see their task uncompleted. Little did they know that Lord Rios is actually a Lich. Poor GMing on my part I showed my players his Phylactery early on in order to give them a hint about the main bad guy. This led to a fight where one of my players died...This was not what I intended to happen. Now I am having a hard time coming up with a way for them to raise that player. Help please...

They have the players toon's body with a spell on it to keep it from decaying. sooo now i just need a way for them to get rezed...

they are in the middle of no where and are wanted dead in the only city that they could get a healer to raise them. there are no dragons in my world.so what can i do now?

Retcon.

As you say things like 'first game' and 'Poor GMing,' it sounds like these were level one characters vs. a lich, and it was something you didn't want to happen.

As the GM, if you don't WANT it to happen.... it didn't HAPPEN. There could be some fun with making a new character... working a ressurection into a plot.. side quests...

OR....

The character can GASP for air and struggle to look around. His companion can shout out "HE'S STILL ALIVE!!" and another can hug his 1hp body and say "Do NOT scare us like that again!"

It happens in the movies and the comics ALLLLLLL the TIME!!!

I'm a firm believer that the IMPORTANT thing of a game is HAVING FUN! Do whatever is best for that. If in your infinite DM wisdom, that encounter should NOT have happened... don't feel constrained. Your going to have a hard time justifying a 1st level LEGALLY coming back from the dead. It's just hard to do for LATER characters between price and availability...

I wouldn't do this to OFTEN... the threat of death is half the fun. but the first night of a new campaign, dont' be afraid of a 'do over' or two...

Thank you I think that is what im going to do. I think i just needed to hear it was okay to do so.

How strongly attached to the PC did the player seem to be?

This is a toon she was bring into my world from another game, its the only reason we are playing. she loved the character .

Okay so to give a bases of what was going on, I was setting up the world for them and just told them of their mission and that Lord Rios was the main bad guy working against them to see their task uncompleted. Little did they know that Lord Rios is actually a Lich. Poor GMing on my part I showed my players his Phylactery early on in order to give them a hint about the main bad guy. This led to a fight where one of my players died...This was not what I intended to happen. Now I am having a hard time coming up with a way for them to raise that player. Help please...

They have the players toon's body with a spell on it to keep it from decaying. sooo now i just need a way for them to get rezed...

they are in the middle of no where and are wanted dead in the only city that they could get a healer to raise them. there are no dragons in my world.so what can i do now?