[MUD-Dev] New Bartle article

[Blane Bramble]

Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com wrote:
> 
> On 27 February 2001 13:27, Richard A. Bartle wrote:
> 
> > There is nothing about PD that says you either die permanently or
> > you walk away from an encounter without a scratch on you.
> 
> I thought the whole point of perm death was that you died permanently?
> Otherwise we are just messing around with penalties.

I think the point is that the result of an encounter doesn't have to be
either permanent removal from the game, or walking off without a
scratch. There are levels of penalty in between (maybe some of your
abilities are reduced, temporarily or permanently, maybe you have to
spend part of that vast fortune you spent months gathering, or maybe
you're now in a weakened state until your character gets some proper R&R
so any further encounter is more likely to result in permanent death).

Blane.
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