Hows bout helping perma-death players by keeping count?

[Zaal]

Hoping I didn't miss it but far as I am aware, servers don't keep of toon death count.

I suppose it'd be interesting to keep track of that stat...
I imagine the stat is already being maintained but not made public...

Perhaps build a mechanism to allow toons to declare perma-death play style and as such, make death count for said toonz public?

I imagine the count would only apply to in quest or wilderness settings.
Hard sell for example to count /death in taverns or public instances against toons.
Then again, assuming some perma-death are hardcode while others are more lax.

Perhaps then keep track of where the 'death' occurred , not a granular level but instead a more general count... in quest / wilderness, non-hostile areas, etc...

thx for reading

[jwdaniels]

Did you try typing /death count in game? I've heard that might work.

[joueur]

I'd rather have /played.

[skepticalsoul]

Did you try typing /death count in game? I've heard that might work.

Do NOT do this. This will kill you in game.

[Mr_Tank]

Do NOT do this. This will kill you in game.

You are just doing it wrong .

[jwdaniels]

Do NOT do this. This will kill you in game.

Next you're going to tell us that you can't use diplomacy on a chest to improve the loot...

[Mr_Tank]

Next you're going to tell us that you can't use diplomacy on a chest to improve the loot...

Quick bless the chest before the noob opens it.

[katana_one]

Not sure how this would help perma-death players, since they are required to delete their character when they die. Deletion and re-roll would reset the count, no?

[der_kluge]

I'm not familiar with the permadeath rules. I got invited to a group doing permadeath one time, and one of the guys died, and they raised him. I don't know if he had to go delete that character later that night, or what. Maybe unless the party completely wipes do they consider it a permanent death?

Maybe different groups have different rules around that.

It seems kind of artificial to me. I mean, the game grants you the facility to resurrect. That doesn't seem to violate any verisimilitude - especially not in a world where you can breathe underwater and throw fireballs.

Where it tends to lose grasp with reality is if the party wipes, recalls out, rests at the Rusty Nail, and then heads back in to finish the job. Seems like you could also rule that a completion by even a single individual would be OK, since that one guy could theoretically return to town with everyone's bodies for resurrection by the Silver Flame once you get there. Again, that's a service that's provided free of charge within the city, so it also doesn't seem to break any verisimilitude rules.

That aside, I'm in favor of creating tools to let people do permadeath. I think it's a cool option, and knowing how many times you do would certainly be kind of cool, regardless of whether or not you played PD or not.

[Cyr]

Yet another can we get more permadeath support threads.

For pities sake, don't you have a bio for that sort of thing. If your a permadeath player I would hope you are not dying so often that updating your bio would be overly burdensome...

[Phidius]

Ah, this is about bragging rights.

Not interested.

[Zaal]

Ah, this is about bragging rights.

Not sure what you are referring to but for me, not about bragging rights.