LE True Resurrection

[VorlaHusian]

Here is an idea for a mod:

 

Upon death, the character is reborn as a completely random race, with random characteristics, and a random, related, background.

 

When you die you get a brand new character, but instead of making the character yourself you are given one of the races, with one of the presets for that race, and a set of that race's starting gear.

 

Your past life is not wasted, though, as you get bonuses based on your previous lives.

 

Eventually, after dying a number of times, your soul gains abilities, lesser powers, and powers, also based on your previous lives.

 

Another part of this mod would concentrate on past spells adding a small percentage of their effects to your attacks. Each spell would add one tenth of a point of that type of damage to melee and ranged weapons, and other spells of the same effect. So, if you had 10 fire based spells in all your past lives, added together, you would do 1 point of fire damage with a weapon, and an extra 1% fire damage to all fire based spells.

 

The only time you would forfeit all past life bonuses is if you become an undead character: Vampire, Zombie, or Lich. Then you would have to start all over again.

 

There would be a down side to this past life idea. Any bad experiences you suffered in your previous lives would cause weaknesses to the same type of bad experiences in your current life. So, if you died of a disease, or poison, you would be one percent more susceptible to diseases, or poisons. If you died of physical trauma your health would be effected, etc. This would balance the sheets, so to speak, and make the experience of dying less attractive.

 

All in all I think this would be a really good, and immersive, alternative to the current death choices.