The owners have passed the following changes concerning character death. Effective July 1, 2013:
Under "The Bag of Chance" on page 94 of the ARB, change the first two sentences of the third paragraph ("If you pick a Death Stone...") to the following:
If you pick a Death Stone, you may choose one of two options. Your first option is to immediately retire the character as per the following section, "Killing off Your Character", save that you may not turn in any items for goblin point compensation (as all items are left where the character died in-game).
Alternatively, you may choose to keep your character and give them one final chance at life. The character resurrects successfully as though they had chosen a Life Stone, but the next time that they go to resurrect they do not draw from the Bag of Chance and instead permanently die. This permanent death may not be evaded or extended by means of any additional ritual such as Regenerate, Controlled Spirit Store, or Sacrifice, and once this option has been chosen the character may not be retired as per the following section, "Killing off Your Character". The character is aware that this will be their last chance at life.
In either case, when the character permanently dies, the character's body reforms exactly where it dissipated.
In addition, the owners have approved the following change:
On page 151, under "Resurrections:", add the following line at the end of the second paragraph following "... Third, for logistics purposes, you can only buy back resurrections in your "home campaign.""
Finally, no character may ever buy back more than ten deaths in this manner.
Thank you,
Bryan Gregory
ARC
