An open discsusion on the consequences of death

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Because when you die now it doesn't mean anything. You can run right back and it's fine because your freaking homepoint is always 20 feet away from you. It's seriously a joke.

How does having to use any skill tactically create any seriousness of the situation when if you mess up you can just have a redo 3 minutes later?

You can balance this sort of thing with the encounter itself instead of the entire system, if its a boss monster in a dungeon just put a lock on the door that locks when you engage it or have the monster cause a debuff that gives it extra attack power against someone it just killed .



edit:

ok here's one thing that a lot of people seem to be missing

A harsher death penalty is not going to make the monsters harder. They're still going to be pushovers until something is done to actually make them more difficult


double edit: I mean yeah we need consequences to death but good god guys, some people can punch that buffalo right in its mouth by themselves.