Screw it. If you kill a NPC they are dead. There are only a small handful of quests that are required so I just need to protect those NPCs. If you go around killing NPCs then it's less quests for you.
@grumpygamer Once I didn't want to code a system for managing respawning in-game resources so I just didn't. Pick too many apples? Damn buddy that's rough
@grumpygamer I love what Dragon’s Dogma 2 does in regards to this. It moves all dead NPCs to a morgue, where they can be revived using a rare-ish consumable. Lets both the player and the world kill them, but doesn’t break the playthrough: just gives the player an extra problem to solve.
@grumpygamer in the original Fable, you could break into people's houses at night and murder them in their beds. They would never respawn and were just gone after that. Not sure if it was a bug or designed this way, but I was basically able to depopulate every town in the game. It got lonely.
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