More inadvisable ways to introduce a replacement for a dead Dungeons & Dragons character mid adventure:
Hanging from a gallows, apparently dead, only to speak up and request help getting down at the party’s approach; when they ask how you survived, simply remark that you have a very strong neck
Appearing in a flash of light in response to some seemingly innocuous action, tearfully thanking the party for “finally breaking the curse”
The next ogre or other large humanoid the party encounters is wielding you as a club
Wandering aimlessly from around the next bend, peering at an enormous fold-out map and loudly insisting you could have sworn this was the way to Waterdeep
Falling screaming from the sky, and landing miraculously unharmed; if questioned, mutter something about bats and refuse to elaborate
(replacement character is at least one size category smaller) It turns out that you were in the deceased character’s backpack the whole time
As it turns out, your characters was actually two characters in a trench coat the entire time, and only the top one died.
