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I'm strictly against any form of punishment upon death Two reasons: 1) It's bad game design. If you punish upon a mistake, it kills the fun. Keep in mind that in most games the mistake itself already leads to severe punishment, concretely for this game you can neither get XP nor gold while dead. Punishment never goes well with fun, conversly rewarding good play helps the fun. 2) It introduces a spiral of doom. Read the OP's post, it's already explained there. I