[Balanor]

Permadeath has made its (limited) return. I really debated this one, and asked for input from the staff on this as well. But again, due to discussions here, I felt that bringing back the possibility of permanent death is needed to give pause to an individual that feels ‘Oh - I can mouth off to this Red Wizard because my PC can always respawn or come back from the Fugue’. Now, notorious individuals may place death marks on other characters. After an accumulation of death marks from different player’s characters, true (perma)death can occur from which the individual cannot return.

I can see the worth of this, but I have one reservation.

Seems to me, this is just a "let the biggest group win" tool. Which will have the "feel" of having to obay or risk perma death. Its fine in a setting like Thay and all. But I know that I would likely never make a character that would oppose the (I hate to say it like this, but best example) "popular crowd".

I trust Thay, the staff and the players. I can just see this being such a bully tactic, that it gives me shivers. To think my Red Wizard can be perma killed, from a group intent on grinding rp exp to boost noteriety, for no other reason than they can. Yikes.

No opposed, just...yikes

Understood. Any recommendation on how this perception/problem can be changed to avoid bullying or allow people to create characters that are not going to fall into a 'clique'? Like - it can only be used on characters at or above the same notoriety level as the person giving the mark, perhaps? Or something else?

But again - the issue of trying to help enforce a bit of restraint on new(er) PCs (or players) that expect they can ignore the established order/Red Wizards/PCs is the primary purpose of allowing death mark on PCs, and is something I'd like to maintain with any modification made to this (or if this feature modification dies as quickly as it was made).