im hoping i will read something amusing but true

I've never had the stones to actually try this, mostly because I feel like if I'm really being hardcoe about it I would start over no matter what the circumstances were. And I wouldn't have the heart to start from scratch every time some bug contributed to my death, or I looked away to take a drink and accidentally fell down a cliff that really shouldn't have killed me but Skyrim has ridike fall damage.

the first rule for many in DiD is that if you die due to a bug it doesn't count. reload with impunity.

for me, if i die for a silly reason like taking a drink or some controller issue, i reload. the controller, especially, since it is a very imperfect piece of equipment and forgetting it's layout or pressing the wrong button happens all the time. reload.

accidentally falling off a cliff, though, and it's time to re-roll the character sheet, lol.

the thing i really like about DiD, aside from the intensity, is all the different character types and subtypes i can play around with. these DiD's are where i do my VERY STRICT rping, as well.

That's sort of a good point. I'm sure it would help with roleplaying if your character actually had concern for his or her one and only life, lol.

I'm still afraid to do it. Just earlier today I was playing Morrowind and needed to fill two Grand Soulgems with a Storm Atronach soul or greater so that I could build my House Telvanni stronghold. So I summoned a Storm Atronach and tried to soul trap him. But unfortunately despite having the Atronach birthsign my spell absorb failed to trigger three times in a row, and as I was about to kill him he knocked me to the floor and finished me off as I tried to stand up =(

I'd hate that, accidentally killed by your own summon!

The way one of my characters died was really pathetic, I was on top of the Throat of the World and as I walked up to the edge to admire the view I hear someone drop something which scared the living crap out of me and then I drop my controler and just by bad luck my controler lands on the RB button and initiates the Thu'um I had selected and guess what shout it was?

Yep, that's right, it was Whirlwind sprint.

Considering I have been killed by taking an arrow in the knee, I would say I hope someone who is doing a DiD gets killed by taking an arrow to knee, and then falling off a cliff. That would be hilarious.

I haven't tried this sort of hardcoe challenge. Don't know if I'd have the discipline to stick with it. My own feeling is that health, stamina and magicka potions are cheats. I hate to use them. They make me feel dirty when I have to resort to them. Healing with magic is fine, but not potions that you get to use while time stands still. My character hadn't even been close to death for a few hundred hours until I charged a couple of high-ranking falmer yesterday. As I hacked and slashed it out with them, I noticed my health taking a very unusual quick and continuous dip. Looking around, confused, I finally saw a chaurus reaper that was wailing away at me from behind. And I wasn't wearing my necklace of poison immunity; all those high resistances to everything else weren't helping a bit. My heartbeat was pounding in my ears as my life line shrank to a sliver. So I bailed out, I'm ashamed to say. An ultimate health potion saved my careless behind. Bah! I should be dead and buried in a deep hole near a dwemer ruin, and the end credits should be rolling as somber music slowly plays.