[MUD-Dev] Definition of permadeath (was: Maintaining fiction)

[Madman Across the Water]

Christopher Kohnert wrote:
 
> If you equate permadeath with the death of an individual
> character, you remove the word from its place as the absolute in a
> spectrum. Perhaps I'm just arguing semantics but there needs to be
> a

Well, the word does lend itself to appearing to mean "permanent
death", and nothing more. Taking on further losses is not inherent
in the word.  However...

> specific word which means loss of your investment (which
> permadeath happens to serve nicely). Otherwise any conversation
> about the middle ground (families, clones, etc) is a bit pointless
> in that any comparisons are without basis.
 
> Permadeath is, or rather, should be, the concept of losing all
> aspect of a character -- completely -- forever. Which I should
> think

I will _not_ argue that this is not a concept which deserves a
term. If that term is "permadeath", so be it. I suppose.

Adam B
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