Death system change

[HoHoHeeHee]

When a character dies they suffer an xp loss very similar to now.

Through -playtime- in game, they will be rewarded 33% of this lost XP back over a duration (to be determined) as their physical form recovers, should they choose to respawn.

A Resurrection will double the the rate at which XP is returned to the character, and provide a refund of 50% of the lost XP over a duration of playtime.

For example:

Trog the barbarian died and had 18,000 XP. He chooses to respawn and so he loses 6,000 of this XP, just like the current system. However, as he continues to "recover" (play) he will be hit with 2,000 XP over the duration of "recovery" in similar form to the low level XP / faction XP in place now.

If a nice friend decides to use a candle on him, he will recover 3,000 of this XP at twice the rate as he would have from a respawn.

Other temporary penalties could be applied as well if the DMs so desired to alleviate this less harsh system, things that also are removed upon the end of the "recovery" phase.

Maybe an temporary LA / ECL +1 until recovered, a -1 CON, 10% movement speed loss, or something along those lines.

[trick_or_treat]

me likey.

[Sheer Gluttony]

This would therefore require some hard level cap or otherwise in order to stop everyone reaching level 10+ simply by accumulation of exp over time.

[MirrorMask]

The xp over time would need to go away once the characterreached the xp total they were at before they died, or else someone could powerquest up to 7 or 8 or even 9 and then get a lot more xp more quickly than they would otherwise.

[HoHoHeeHee]

The recovery could certainly stop once their original xp leve was hit through any of the other means. So if you die and go quest a bunch and gain that xp back, it doesn't keep feeding it to you afterward.

[Johannes]

How do you propose that this would actually stack?

[Gotham]

This is a badass change and I like it