The only reason I even want fame is to get more noble character slots. If you just give all the character slots that people would get from fame when the player starts out instead, I think there would be a lot less fame whoring. It would just become a statistic, fun to compare, but not effecting a players experience of Battlemaster. Right now it has a huge effect, namely how many characters you can have at once, giving people a big motive for fame whoring.
On to the "Til Death" option, I would like this. It would give more weight to me RP'ing Gustav Kuriga as having near-suicidal faith in Allison Kabrinski, and secondarily the Blood Stars (yes, he puts her above the Blood Stars, though he'll never admit it).
