Maybe the problem is too many 'to the death' fights in the RPG Arena. I don't really kill people's characters very often at all, only if it has a very strong story precedent, but if more fights were explicitly non-lethal it could be interesting. Actually, none of my ranked fights have ended with me killing my opponent, though that might be more of a testament to people refusing to 'lose' in a competitive setting.

One opponent turned to gloop, other than that only Kanitah has died in all my fights since the season began, which is about 20 or so, that's pretty unlucky. [@LeeRoy]