[MUD-Dev] Maintaining fiction.

[Madman Across the Water]

Christopher Kohnert wrote:
 
>   Permadeath: <noun> from Permanent and death, meaning dead for
>   ever.
 
> I would argue that permadeath means you die, plain and simple. You
> get nothing, your stuff does not carry over to other characters,

Why not? That doesn't seem to me to ruin the word "permadeath." 
Tying some things to, for example, your family rather than an
individual character doesn't bother me, and it's still a blow to
have the character die forever. I think you're tying too much into
permadeath. Granted, I agree that "temporary permadeath" is a
contradiction, but I think permadeath is very simple- your character
dies and is gone forever.  Everything else is details.


Adam B
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