[chaosprime]

Yeah, that's kinda exactly the snooty "of course our arbitrary feature choices automatically make everything more awesome" RPI attitude in a nutshell. Thanks for the illustration.

I could see that logic working, sure. I could also see people being less willing to get intensely invested in a character when everything they put into it can be zeroed out in a split second by some jackass -- and there being some relationship between this and the RPI burnout that leads to the much-whinged-about phenomenon of RPIs dumbing down their environment in order to attract and retain RP-ignorant newbies.

Permadeath has things going for it, sure, but the idea that it's an unqualified enhancer of total awesome radness just shows that people haven't read their Bartle.