You have died.

Your soul has been drawn to the fugue plane where other souls wander the mostly flat gray expanse until they are gathered by their patron deities or make their way to the City of Judgment.

Should your soul return to the living it would have no memory of the time it spent in the fugue plane.

You will also not have any memory of some period of time leading up to your death. How much time? That varies and is left up to each player to determine on their own. What we do know is that the moment of death is so traumatic that the mind simply cannot retain it in memory. Some may remember the last person with whom they spoke or what they were doing mere seconds before death, while others may not remember what happened over the last few days or even weeks before death. Although you will be unable to recall the exact details of what happened on your own, your memory of events shortly before death may give you clues and even suggest who you might seek out to determine what happened.

Upon your soul's reunification with your body you may experience different sensations. Some awaken with a severe headache lasting a day or two; others find that they suffer from a weakness of the body that can only be cured with ample bed rest. Some may even experience temporary amnesia and do not recognize anyone around them or places that are normally familiar. Others find that in the moment of battle the amount of adrenaline in their system combined with healing magic spurs them to action for a short while before they succumb to weakness and need rest. Still others may develop an abnormal fear of death or other phobias, neuroses or psychological aberrations. What exactly will you feel? We leave this up to each individual to determine on their own, but you should bear in mind that death is traumatic to the body, the mind and the soul and returning from the dark place beyond death is at the very least disorienting and not without consequences. We are all affected by what happens to us, and you are encouraged to make your experience part of your role play.

May you find peace with your god when all things end.

The guy that probably has sexual fantasies about masturbation. I mean, Iron, you're a bookworm nerd that even in your wildest escapism fantasies flee to the internet to play the role of another bookworm nerd? Come on!

The guy that probably has sexual fantasies about masturbation. I mean, Iron, you're a bookworm nerd that even in your wildest escapism fantasies flee to the internet to play the role of another bookworm nerd? Come on!

As far as we have reason to expect, none of the things you mention will have any effect on the way death is role-played. And more importantly, there isn't necessary anything wrong with the way death is (not) role-played right now. The system as it stands leaves plenty of room for people to turn it into a traumatic experience when it suits the story, or shrug it off. The part you did not understand was my central argument: any death system that imposes a "right" way to RP about it undermines story at the expense of gameplay. Scenes in a story are supposed to have meaning, they advance logically from one to the other within the conventions of the genre. A collaborative RP experience is never fully planned, of course, but adding an obtrusive element of mechanically randomness ("oops I rolled 1, let's interrupt the coherent light-hearted adventure parody for a forced paramedic scene") does not improve storytelling. Death can only be meaningful when it needs to happen, or when it happens when you least expect it. If death becomes a routine inconvenience that you kind of expected but that will be annoying when it happens (which any harsher system will cause), it becomes even more banal and meaningless than it is now. What you want and how you propose to achieve it are not in line.

This has nothing to do with cliques, the old guard, the Arelith-scare or anything like that. It is simply a matter of good, consistent game design and honest argumentation. If the method you propose simply does not have the consequences you aspire to and, as far as we can see, would only have undesirable side effects, it is a bad method and we are better off not implementing it.

I have and will continue to play PvE death not as death, but as getting knocked out or otherwise injured so that one can't fight further without first-aid. I pretend Raise Dead scrolls are emergency scrolls that can fix a body and restore its functions but cannot return a departed soul. If you want to RP being dead for real, then, I probably won't raise you with a scroll. Tough luck, get a cleric.

I fully support potential permadeath in PvP and DM stories, though.

After talking a bit with Silke, I think it was, I've been toying with something along those emote lines. However the thought I have is this:

1.Redesign of the fugue plane to give it a better 'feel' of death and the beyond with new PLCs, lighting, sounds, music etc.
2. Place flavor triggers in the fugue that tell people what death should / could feel like.

"A bitter could sinks into the pit of your being, a cold with out hope for warmth"
"You step forward, but you don't so much step as simply move"
"How much time has slipped by? Minutes, hours, days? Does it matter?"

3. Upon death all PCs have an immediate fade to black and are moved to the fugue plane leaving a corpse object behind.
4. Anyone casting resurrection/raise dead/ etc. would simply teleport the PC back from the fugue plane.
5. Where the re-spawn points are you can be given the choice to re spawn, wait for a raising, or choose to perma kill your PC and have them auto archived.