Hero death and disposition of Upgrades and Experience

[ATOEtalGeek]

We got a game of LNOE going over the weekend with Timber Peak.

A question came up when one of the Heroes got killed.

There is nowhere that I can find in the TP rule book that tells you what to do with upgrades and experience when a Hero dies. Intuitively, you would think they get discarded, and that is the way we played it. But, the very rule book that introduces the Experience and Upgrade system fails to give an instruction.

The player was not all that happy because the rule book did not say explicitly to discard them, but couldn't dispute that they are assigned to the Hero and not the player so relented without too much fuss. I said I would ask on this forum.

I just wondered who else has come across that question and how you handled it.