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Just a heads up, Liches do not have phylacteries in current lore, that's just Draugar. Besides that, I think a solution would be a cost to revival, or better requirements to achieve it. I'll admit, current Necromancy lore is really garbage in how revival is handled. Seeing as you just need a pile of meat and another necromancer, and boom you can revive your buddy from the grave. Personally I think the problem stems not from revival itself, but by the limited interaction that the revival process has. I think if people where able to gain more routes that made rp more intruiging, whether this be curses via revival, PK clauses, magic consequences, it would make revival more unique as a whole. I can't comment on most other forms, simply because I'm not knowledgeable with them. But in terms of Necromancy revival, the one good thing is that you understand as an ordained Necromancer you will and do die, and thus are barred from access to Monk Revival.

As if I couldn't be a humble vampire making black pudding for second breakfast fry ups smh

There are, imo way too many ways to die and simply be revived. You've got darkstalkers, ghouls, liches, Azdrazi and cloning and maybe some others. I would definitely support cutting these down.

halflings are forced to be normal, humble farmers instead of edgy darkspawn by lore? oh no, this is a HUGE loss for the halfling community /s

Oh absolutely. Frankly I don't actually care whether or not LOTC wants to have more or less consequences for death thats an administration problem. There's a reason why I said my 'opinionated solutions' are very unlikely and impractical in the state of the server right now. I agree that in reality unless there is some type of massive overhaul the idea of consequence to death wouldn't change on this platform. That being said, something that can easily be changed today if people are more aware of it is the general mindset of 'Oh, just because I have this different flavored form of resurrection its somehow less cheap than just rezzing the next day to CT Monks'. Thanks for the fact chess boss I'm not an Undead Lore nut, just went based off of an old wight's comments (this was also back in like Atlas tbf). Wild though that apperently Liches can come back after getting a phylactery broken though that's wild didnt know that. Edit time

when i played a lich his phylactery was broken. this was a long ass time ago and that character did get raised again later

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it's pretty sad how the only way to invoke a sense of consequence on this server is by creating OOC consequences, such as by making people d40 on death to steal their epic items, or nuggetting their character to the point where RP becomes impossible. outside of that death as a punishment is entirely obsolete. I've had encounters where people will literally beg OOCly not to be killed, only to return the next day to the same instance that originally got them killed, and complain again about being killed (?) in an ideal world death would have consequence, but asking everybody to PK on death would create more problems than it'd solve. you'd get people making throwaway characters who constantly try to murderhobo for the sake of it, people would be even MORE afraid of pursuing risky encounters and thus do nothing but hide, etc. so what we're left with is the current state of affairs where killing your enemy isn't what defeats them, and what consequence there is to dying is determined by player culture

There's literally no reason that Azdromoth should realistically be allowed to fly, he's too fat

SLEEPY TAKE.

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i don't think attaching redlines to player skins is a good idea just punish people who rp as an MW3 juggernaut and drop the bow emotes from 3 to 2, don't make it more complicated than it has to be. a bow isnt some weapon of mass destruction it can be countered by emoting *holds up his shield. if someone is stupid enough to charge an archer without any kind of defense they deserve to die

Actually Myst, you don't understand how important and powerful and how much sense it makes that my character can revive via this method. /srs

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The Funeral of Illatius Issued 14th of The First Seed 1979 To the people of Ravenmire and the former friends of Sir Illatius For many years the people of Ravenmire and the great north have been protected by a man, and this man was named Sir Illatius of Blackworth. He has served the realm for many years now, fighting off mystics and the monsters of the north. Sir Illatius fought with honor and bravery, in his last moments of life he showed himself to be a true knight of Ravenmire. This will be a celebration of his life and all he has done for the Sovereignty of Ravenmire and the Duchy of Blackworth. A statue will be constructed within the palace once built to honor his memory, so the future generations will know of the great Sir Illatius of Blackworth. His funeral will be held in the chapel of Ravenmire, then he will be set out to sea and burned. Lastly after the main funeral service all are welcome to join us in the tavern to drink to Illatius’ memory. Signed HIS HIGHNESS, the SOVEREIGN OF RAVENMIRE, Bo I of the House of Rostova Henry Arthur Haverlock, Duke of Blackworth Sir Magnus Winburgh Baron of the Isles

Hi there people of the Lord of Crafting forums! It's your favorite person, Dont-Advertise here to drop a debate post in the stead of some other people. I'd like to start off this post with saying that this is not a debate about whether or not you're cool or cringe for not PKing when killed in roleplay. I have been on both sides of the 'infinite revives' argument wherein at one point I believed in only ending a story when you wanted to, and nowadays I'm the type of person to PK first death no matter what. Now I still heavily believe that there is nobody who is entitled to pressure someone into PKing. Are there situations wherein people should realistically PK after being killed? Absolutely. That being said the minutiae of that exact argument is irrelevant to this post here and not something I'm trying to bring attention to. The point of this post is to point out something that I just frankly see as hypocrisy, this being people who take advantage of lore revivals outside of using the Cloud Temple Monks. I'm entirely inactive and don't read lore, but I know there are MULTIPLE lore written ways to be revived with certain magics/CAs outside of the ones that I'm just going to roughly touch on. Generally in my opinion, lorewritten 'outs' of death tend to consist of a few different general 'themes' 1: 'My Magic/God keeps me back and brings me back from death with no real drawbacks, lol?' - This is objectively the laziest form of 'Death Double Standard' that I see, though it's not as common as the second point. Just because your magic inherently writes a way for you to come back through your divine- or through some type of different place, does not mean it is any less cringe in comparison to a player reviving at the CT. 2: 'There's this awesome material/ring/Klone that's actually keeping me alive, and if you killed them I'd be dead' - First off, I've been told by longstanding Necromancer players that a Lich Phylactery has never been broken- PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong. The idea behind this topic basically cements down to being 'oh if you destroy/do this one thing then I literally just instantly die'. The conditions for these PKs are almost always entirely avoidable, obtuse, and impossible to pull off. That being said people will come back from death over and over and over again whilst dangling the proverbial carrot of 'Oh, well my (blah blah blah) is keeping me alive!' - As well at least in the case of Lich Phylacteries (as far as I know) the Lich is supposed to instantly die, but in the case of things such as Pale Knights and Klones, you can have all of your clones/Menhir broken... and then still keep playing your character. Hide in a base 50 blocks underground behind 20 iron doors, have your buddy go get the vague ingredients to rebuild your stuff, and then BAM you're back to being practically unkillable. IMO the worst offender of the 'Death Double Standard' is Kloning. Whilst it's cool in concept I frankly have no idea why you'd ever create something that could devalue death even more on a server where death is already practically meaningless. Though, at the same time, I also don't blame any people for picking up Kloning, it makes sense in RP to have and if it's an option to players I can 100% understand why they'd take it. It's not the player's fault that the lore exists in such a way to 'define' this mentality, It's just really eye-rolling when you see people throwing shade at one another for having their 'ways out' of death whilst also constantly getting into conflict. Lore written resurrections should be imperfect, or at the very minimum shouldn't be showboated as 'legit just cuz lore said so'. To the human RPers that instantly PK on first death and dont have any special outs, I appreciate you all. Feel free to debate down below about what yall think. I don't have a huge stake in this argument in comparison to lots of other people. Due to my lack of knowledge of current lore right now I'm not calling out any specific magics, and to avoid getting a comment warning by a moderator I suggest people not aim their comments towards any specific group/magic/player. MY ENTIRE OPINION DOWN BELOW IN SPOILER FOR HOW TO 'FIX' THIS PROBLEM THOUGH NOT SUPER PRACTICAL: Edit: Clarified My 'Murderhobo' comment for Pale Knights. Adjusted portion about Phylacteries

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