So lets face it, everybody hates it when a PC gets whacked. But it's got to be done to keep any semblance of reality in your game. Now I'm not saying whack a PC every game, and I'm definetly not saying whack your whole group. Throw a funeral for the character, and have all his friends go get drunk for about a week. Now the other big point about characters getting killed is stupidity.
Stupidity is intolerable.
Normally in my games I will never kill a PC or a major NPC without a die roll. If your that stupid you deserve to die. Now before you start this article I'd just like to say I'm writing this one for revenge. This article is more of a plea to all you players out there to please put some thought into your characters. Let me use one of my players as an example.