Dungeons and Dragons Online has added a Hardcore server with permadeath.

I’ve been wanting to play this style for a long time.

I managed to get up to level 7 before getting killed.

I was taken out by a Troglodyte Shaman who cast Melf’s acid arrow on me. The DoT took me down to incapacitated and then death before my hireling could heal me.

Unfortunately, I can’t get back my Greater learning tome or the permanent gold seal hireling Eleri. Those two things really made a difference in the early game for questing.

I’m licking my wounds for now, and I’ll try again tomorrow.