How could I make a death feed?

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GameManagerModule.on("playerdeath", function(playerWhoDied) --player instance, not name
    print(playerWhoDied.Name..." died!")
end)
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Have a client sided script that activates a remote event whenever they die, and a death index / value. That index would be put into a table to check what the death reason is. The index could be a string with the death reason, but that may over complicate things because you would have to input the death reason from a different script, which could break the system if you input a wrong reason.

Example of a script like that:

local deathMessage = require(script.Parent.DeathMsg).msg --// Module scripts are more reliable that value instances, since if the script just wont require if it doesn't exist, while if it was an instance, it would either throw an error or a warning
local hmoid = script.Parent.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid") --// This is in StarterPlayerScripts since script.Parent is the player, not the character
local deathEvent = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").DeathEvent --// Or the location of the remote event
local died = false

hmoid.Died:Connect(function()
    if not died then
        died = true
        deathEvent:FireServer()
        task.wait(game:GetService("Players").RespawnTime) --// I can't remember the exact name of the respawn time property, so replace it with the real name if it doesn't work
        died = false --// Debounce just incase something goes wrong
    end
end)

Note: Code was written without testing.
Note: I wrote the code since I for whatever reason find it to be incredibly entertaining.
Note: I would recommend testing this code in a baseplate before marking anything as the solution, since I came up with this on the fly lol.

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3

Humanoid.Died is what youre looking for

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Module:

local module = {}

local EventObjects = script:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Folder") or Instance.new("Folder", script)
EventObjects.Name = "EventObjects"

function module.getEvent(name)
	local event = EventObjects:FindFirstChild(name)
	
	if not event then 
		event = Instance.new("BindableEvent") 
		event.Name = name 
		event.Parent = EventObjects
	end 
	
	return event 
end

module.events = {
	["playerdeath"] = module.getEvent("playerdeath")
}

function module.on(event, func)
	local BindableEvent = module.events[event]
	if not BindableEvent then 
		warn("event was not found")
		return nil 
	end 
	BindableEvent.Event:Connect(func)
end

function module.fire(event, ...)
	local BindableEvent = module.events[event]
	if not BindableEvent then 
		warn("event was not found")
		return nil
	end 
	BindableEvent:Fire(...)
end

return module

Script 1 firing the event:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local GameManagerModule = require(script.Parent)

function PlayerAdded(player)
	local function CharacterAdded(char)
		local hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid", 5)
		if not hum then return end 
		hum.Died:Connect(function()
			GameManagerModule.fire("playerdeath", player)
		end)
	end
	CharacterAdded(player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()) 
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(CharacterAdded)
end

for i, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do 
	PlayerAdded(player)
end
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(PlayerAdded)

Script 2 listening the event:

local GameManagerModule = require(script.Parent)

GameManagerModule.on("playerdeath", function(player)
	print(player.Name)
end)
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