So your saying that you should basically restart your char, but without actually having to restart....
That would definatly make it interesting and put a lot of stress on getting a healer in your party!
Personally, I think there should be major penalties, but only temporary. You dont lose experience, but every time you die, you get a -4 to all stats etc, that build upon each other each time you die. But you can work them off with exp., it just makes it harder to do so when your in that rough of condition.
Or, in reference to an afterworld, when you die, everyone has the same stats and are lvl 1, have to complete quests to be revived, and when do so, are back to thier old highly powerful selves
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That would make it fair so that a high lvl doesnt just hold the portal open for n00bs so to speak