Death and Retirement

Death and Revival

Characters will recover fully upon finishing an adventure completely, however if a character dies, there are consequences and certain actions which should be considered.

If a character dies during the course of an adventure, the matter of the death must be resolved as a matter of consequence of the adventure -- that is, the character must be revived either by a party member explicitly present within the recorded party of the session, or the player must pay for the character to be revived by an NPC and record the payment on the character's sheet. The character cannot be revived by a character who has not participated in the adventure, nor by a party member after the adventure ends and they level up to gain access to new spells, etc.

First-Level Character Death: If a character dies on an encounter prior to reaching level two, that character may be assumed to be brought back to life with no negative repercussions after the session concludes. A character that dies in this manner receives no experience or loot from the session during which they were killed, but otherwise may continue to be played as normal. This type of no-cost character revival only applies to first-level characters, and may only be taken advantage of one time.

Other Characters: Characters of level 2 and above may use a number of methods to find a means to bring the character back to life. Characters revived in these ways are subject to penalties as normal, such as Negative Levels.

Please note that players can (and are encouraged to) share or pool their resources in order to bring a dead party member back to life. The Reincarnate spell, however, is not one of these, as it it banned from this campaign.

Retirement

Rule of Fear has a strict limit on the number of active characters one may maintain. Due to this, it's understandable that a player may want to retire one or more of their current characters in order to make room for a new one. You may contact a GM to have a character retired, which means the character will be moved to a separate retirement game room and deleted from the main one. Because the GMs are volunteers and do not need to be inundated with requests for retiring hordes of low-level characters, the minimum level to retire a character is level 3. Prior to this, you may simply delete the character yourself to make room for a new one. If you do so, however, be aware that you will not be able to recover it.

Additionally, inactive players of more than two months with qualifying retirement-level characters may have their characters moved to the retirement game at Campaign Administrator discretion, and may have them restored if they return.

Inactive players of more than two months with characters below retirement level may have their characters either deleted or retired, depending on circumstances and at Campaign Administrator discretion.