Topic: How many have you killed?
I am a GM and have been one for about 20 years (on an on-and-off basis, of course). Since I started playing LotFP I tried to change something about my GM-style: characters will die if the dice say they do. I fudge this one time already to save a character in the very first introduction game (my players where new to LotFP then), otherwise I had offed a PC right at the start of the adventure due to bricks falling down on his head after he opened a church door (I did not made this trap up, it was part of the module I played).
So, I wonder how many PC die in the sessions and adventures of other PC. Please share your experience with me, dear fellow GM. I am especially interest in how you incorporate "replacement NPC". Frankly, I would hate to have a player "out of game" at the 1/3 of the session, so I began to write up replacements to shoe-horn them in, based on what scenario they are currently in (see this dwarf here for an example).
How often do the PC in your games bite the dust?
How do your players stomach it?
How do you insert replacement PC?
Which level do you let them start with?