People have to make the choice between bravery and longevity. Heroes can die, and its not like they make the choice before each battle about if they'd like mortality enabled or not. If you want your character to be a hero, you have to deal with the consequences. Shouldn't playing an aggressive or honorable character of any kind carry with it some kind of drawback?
You don't need to make the choice of mortality before every battle, you made it by selecting to be a Hero. Mortality and the inability to change out of the class are the two most defining features of the class. It pretty much exists for the player that WANT that extra risk from every wound.
The problem is playing as an honorable character SHOULD be the default, not some special edge case for the risk takers. In terms of draw backs well lets see, aggressive characters tend to attract many enemies within and without their realms that would love nothing more then to block the characters agenda. Honorable characters get all the baggage and restrictions that living a morale honorable life still bring. You are a servant to your ideals, even when reason or desire would lead you elsewhere.
