Implementing the SoZ Death system

I have the instructions posted in a few places for how to integrate the SoZ Death system into a campaign. But since one of those places is now defunct and another one's future is suspect, I think I'll post the instructions again here. Hopefully Google will be around for the long haul.

Implementing the SoZ death system in a campaign: 
When setting up the SoZ death system in my own campaigns this is what I have found: First, this will only work in campaigns. Using the campaign editor plugin set PartyMemberDying to TRUE. If you do not do this then the player will not bleed from -1 to -10, and will instead jump right from 0 to -10. The required scripts from SoZ are: 
ginc_death 
k_death_remove_gui  k_mod_load (to be used as the module On Load script)  k_mod_player_death (to be used as the module On Player Death script)  k_mod_player_dying (to be used as the module On Player Dying script) k_mod_load contains some SoZ cohort specific code and some SoZ module specific trade code that can be commented out. The significant thing it is doing regarding the death system is this line which makes sure that dead party members are transitioned with the party when switching areas, rather than being left behind:  SetGlobalInt( VAR_GLOBAL_NX2_TRANSITIONS, TRUE); If you allow characters to die and your first PC does, then when you try to have any other party member converse with an NPC the dead body of the first PC will switch with the conversing party member. To avoid this you can set all NPCs to be able to talk to non player-owned creatures. An easy way to do this if you do not want to alter all of the creature blueprints you have is to take advantage of a line in the k_mod_load script which sets a script name to be executed for any creature being spawned in with the standard spawn in script:  SetGlobalString("N2_SCRIPT_SPAWN_CREATURE", "kb_default_sp" ); This campaign spawn script can be used to control treasure on creatures, but can also be used to set the talk to non player-owned creatures and any other custom spawn in code. I also use it to randomize creature and citizen appearances. Look at the bb_kingsfestival_sp script in my Harvest of Chaos: King's Festival + Queen's Harvest campaign if you want to do this. A cautionary note about allowing all NPC's to speak to party members: If you have NPCs set to speak to non player owned creatures then you may have a problem if you use the gb_surrender_hb script. This script causes a creature to surrender after being damaged and then start a conversation with the nearest party member. If the NPC is set to talk to non-player owned creatures then it may start a conversation with someone other than your currently selected PC, in which case the conversation will not work properly. To avoid this problem I set an integer variable on any creature with a conversation that should only speak to the main PC and the script checks for that. The variable is BB_USEMYTALKVAL and when set to 1 my campaign script will not alter the default Talk setting on the creature. k_mod_player_death is pretty clean and doesn't contain any SoZ specific code that can be removed. It executes the k_death_remove_gui script. k_mod_player_dying doesn't contain any SoZ specific code that can be removed. As long as your companions use the standard gb_comp scripts they should be handled correctly. 

So if all you want is to mimic the SoZ death system in your campaign the above should be enough. 
 In my campaigns I do quite a bit more though so that in easy mode the death system from the OC is used rather than the SoZ system. I also apply xp penalties for dying.