Just a quick note - using easy kills while resting near bonfire causes multilocation-wide wipe of everything that was not dead at the time, including NPCs, Bosses, mooks, phantoms and even invaders. Can't say I did not enjoy a three location wide death wave, but still it made some NPC interactions unattainable.
Yep, I came across this one. Ended up nuking a couple very early characters because of it dropping ****tons of souls/boss souls on me.