I am seriously interested in checking this out. Do you know of any servers that still do harsh death penalties, like dropping items on death, losing exp, etc?
We have plans to do that, item drop (1-3 random on death, with level loss) - but we are still testing systems so tend to 'go lightly'. Our system uses 'life tokens', you'll pay one or more (depending on how well your god is pleased with your PC) to get a respawn. At present we issue a free set of tokens to each PC after server restart (this was originally done to compensate players for any beta test caused deaths and to embolden players to encourage them to ferret out those bugs that remained). We are close to end of beta test at this point, I'm hoping to conclude it by summers' end, at which time the rather merciless version of the death/respawn system will be turned on.
We are undergoing a growth spurt at the moment, come join us! There are many new players here you can join as well as a number of veteran gamers, all will be happy to see a new face.