Tales Of a Heroic Death (Idea)

[TwilightCannon]

You groan as you notice the screen lag a moment, that sound play...you were sniped by a spell, just your luck..right when you thought you fled that rampaging minotaur...Oh well. You shrug. Your character wasn't really all that interesting. You figure you don't particularly like the class you had, or maybe it was the race itself... Regardless, this appears to be your one-hundredth character death.

So you roll on over to the next character, leaving the dead one to be, the memory of them escaping you quickly as you try something else.


"You've unlocked a challenge..."
...eh?

Cool, a new gameplay element? This'll be fun...

...I can't find it, can you not select it? Huh. Well then.

-You shrug this off, too, rolling right along...whacking trollmire across the head, and head off to the next dungeon, easy. Easy.-

-As you step into the first floor of the dungeon, you're given a message...-

"A familiar scream can be heard within the dungeon...is this...yours?"

...what.

-You progress in the dungeon, a bit more careful than usual, this dungeon should be easy, right?-

"A champion soul refuses to die!"

-You come across your previous character, labeled as a boss, with the talents and skills they had before their demise-

OOOHH. OHHHHHH NOOOO--

So, yeah! My idea...perhaps this has been said before, but I would absolutely love this. Perhaps restricted to difficulties beyond Normal? They'd have the same loot you had in their inventory before, though money miiiight be a little overkill. This could happen in the dungeon you perished in, or a random encounter in any dungeon- when you're at the level your previous character was. We could have an option, too, to have the game randomly pick a defeated hero of yours to fight! Of course, there's some moments where we'd like to NOT fight someone who died, like someone who had a overpowered levelup bonus mod on them, so it would be nice to select who we'd wish to face.

What do you think? Like it? Hate it? Any ways to make it better?

[bpat]

Getting their items would be insanely good. Otherwise, I can see this being a fun addon but probably a bad idea to add into the base game.

[Radon26]

like someone who had a overpowered levelup bonus mod on them,

you already cant load a character, if you don't have an addon on its list installed.
so finding a character... which has an addon, that your character doesn't, would be weird anyway.

imagine going through a vanilla game... not a single mod installed(at least on your character)... and then you have to fight A FORGE KNIGHT!