More inadvisable ways to introduce a replacement for a dead Dungeons & Dragons character mid adventure: 

• Hanging from a gallows, apparently dead, only to speak up and request help getting down at the party’s approach; when they ask how you survived, simply remark that you have a very strong neck
   
  
• Appearing in a flash of light in response to some seemingly innocuous action, tearfully thanking the party for “finally breaking the curse”
   
  
• The next ogre or other large humanoid the party encounters is wielding you as a club
   
  
• Wandering aimlessly from around the next bend, peering at an enormous fold-out map and loudly insisting you could have sworn this was the way to Waterdeep
   
  
• Falling screaming from the sky, and landing miraculously unharmed; if questioned, mutter something about bats and refuse to elaborate
   
  
• (replacement character is at least one size category smaller) It turns out that you were in the deceased character’s backpack the whole time