[MUD-Dev] Alright... IF your gonan do DESIESE...

[Adam Wiggins]

[Chris L:]
> >To me, this makes death sufficiently nasty to be avoided (no one will
> >want their abilities to decay, since those are the determining
> >factors in what one can do and how well one can do it in the world),
> >but also gives the recently dead a few perks--it can actually be
> >advantageous to be dead for short periods of time.  And a simple
> >wrong move or misguided action that has fatal consequences doesn't
> >dump me back to absolute square one.
> 
> I can just see a set of enterprising players using this as a body-swap
> regime.  They go kill Bubba who has a nice body, then get themselves
> killed to have one of their compatriots ressurect them in the "better"
> body.
> 
> Equally I can see such "body trades" being used as a method of gaining
> access to areas otherwise impossible.  eg.

I'm thinking of a mud with permenant death I played a long while back -
might have been DartMUD.  At any rate, you could wear amulets of life or
something, which effectively 'caught' your soul when you died.  Now...the
amulet didn't do much more than that, it just sat there, so you have to
count on your buddies retreiving it from your mangled corpse, then using
the amulet to release your soul into another body - which could be
anything from a rat to a dragon.  Kinda cool, though I didn't play
long enough to see it in action.