

For example, armor that requires more than your base Strength will not be equipped if the game attempts to place it before placing the item that increased your Strength enough to wear the armor. When you click on your corpse, the game attempts to re-equip your items to where they were before your death, but this depends largely on the order in which your items are picked up. If you needed +Strength or +Dexterity items to equip other weapons or pieces of armor, you may have to re-equip these items manually. Make sure you go back and recover your original body with your equipment before leaving the game. Open Characters: Only your oldest corpse is saved between games. Your original body with your equipment should save unless you manage to equip yourself with a greater value of equipment, die, then leave the game. So keep this in mind when putting on equipment to recover your corpse. Realm Characters: The corpse with the most gold value (in items) will be saved between games. You will want to read the whole thing, but here is a relevant bit for you.Ī player may have up to 16 corpses.

Here is the link to the original D2 website. The death mechanics in D2 (and D2R) are a bit harsh, and not really intuitive.
