Death, and how you can come by it?

[Johnboy]

Recently we have been learning about poisons and such in our games. Our DM is new since our old DM moved far away and we have no contact for him. So I return to Giants in the Playground to save the day, or doom us all. XD

We have a decent understanding of death and the different ways you can come by it. However recently I began to wonder about another way to possibly die. There are ways in games, either by artifacts or perhaps curses to reduce ones experience. What would happen should your characters experience hit zero? And if there is a section on it that i can reference for our new DM please list book and page.

[Yuki Akuma]

A freshly-created level 1 character's experience is 0.

They don't die immediately on starting the game.

[Captnq]

There is no XP drain.

There is level drain.

You become undead.

[Yuki Akuma]

There is no XP drain.

This isn't strictly true. It is totally possible to get your XP reduced down to 0, although it has to be partially voluntary.