If characters in the game who die are dead for good, what implications will this have on the world? I would imagine in the setting of a game, people are going to be dying at a much greater rate than they do in real life, will the population decrease over time? If a town has a shopkeeper and then he dies, do they just not have a shopkeeper now? Can you never purchase things in that town again? Or will another shopkeeper spawn and take his place? I'm just wondering if you stick around for a long time, will the world end up degenerating into a wasteland where nobody's around anymore, not because some catastrophe killed them all, but simply because they've been slowly dying one by one with no replacements.