On Fri, 13 May 2016 21:47:42 -0400, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org>
wrote:

>I have mixed feelings on the "death during generation" issue.  On one
>hand, as you say, it is part of the mystique of the game. However, I had
>a player once say, "I just spent the last half hour or so making roll
>after roll and now I'm dead?!?  I'm done." It also wastes time during
>the start if it happens because now you're waiting on one character
>while everyone else is just about finished.

I suspect very much that this is why an early shared "house rule" was
what became the "optional survival rule" which is now essentially the
default, with "die, loser!" being the defacto option. I also suspect
very much that variations on the theme were among the first "house
rules" that practically any gaming group made up, just to avoid the
situation you describe here.

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