Ok...How do you guys play a dead character. I know if he dies he loses everything. Do you clear all skill checkmarks he earned. Can he jump back in the current scenario with a new deck, or does he start from the beginning? Or is he not allowed to play and knocked out for the rest of the adventure? I guess there are different options but I just wanted to know how the pros do it. :)
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Ok...How do you guys play a dead character. I know if he dies he loses everything. Do you clear all skill checkmarks he earned. Can he jump back in the current scenario with a new deck, or does he start from the beginning? Or is he not allowed to play and knocked out for the rest of the adventure? I guess there are different options but I just wanted to know how the pros do it. :)
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By the rules, that instance of the character is gone. You may select him/her again, or another character, and build a deck based on the rules book (depends on which AD you're in) but no scenario/adventure deck rewards should be attributed to the new character.
Now. That's by the rules, but you own the game and it depends on what you want out of it. For a RoTR group that meets sporadically, rewards are doled out to players who missed scenarios, so a death would probably result in that happening too for us. For solo, every character that's died on me has been cast aside for a new instance and re-run through the earlier scenarios (typically with another character I was on the fence about playing). Granted I haven't had a character die after AD2, but I only just started WotR...
Ultimately, by the rules the character, or another, must start over after a death, but its really what you're happy with.
I can't really add to what cosined said about the rules for dead characters, so I'm merely offering an additional view of how to bring new characters into the party to replace the recently departed.
In addition to the characters I'm running through with my gaming group, I typically run a party of 3 or 4 other characters through the same AP, trying to keep them as close to the gaming group party as possible (only one or two scenarios behind, if time allows). This works because the gaming group will only consist of about 3 characters, so I'm not killing the cards by having too many characters. So if a character in my gaming group's party dies, we can quickly bring one of the other characters into the group without losing too much time catching that character up. The composition of the secondary party is tailored around the shortfalls in the member group party, giving us some options (especially if, horror of horrors, more than one character in the gaming group party dies during the same scenario).
We try to avoid having more than one of the same character (counting different versions of the same character from different sets/decks as the same character) simply for personal reasons. That's just our group policy, however, and it isn't even something we stick to at all costs (one of my players just loves using Damiel, so he'd likely want to "resurrect" the alchemist if he ever died - which he's avoided thus far).
Lol...I have to remember that the Paizo Police won't kick in the door if I stray from the standard methods!
But are there ways to revive a character? : )
There are two deck 5 spells that can revive a dead character, but those spells must be played during the same scenario that the character died in. Once that scenario ends, they can no longer be revived*. The spells are Raise Dead (in S&S and Cleric class deck, among others) and Breath of Life (in WotR).
* The reward for completing the WotR AP revives every character that died during the AP, but I don't really count that as anything except flavor since you already beat the game by that point -- I guess you can go back and redo scenarios with the now-dead characters if you want.
