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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9280363" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>This was the norm when I played Basic and Advanced D&D in the 80s.</p><p></p><p>This style of play still loves on in Adventurer's League, but that comes with a bunch of additional rules for league-legal PCs. </p><p></p><p>For the campaigns that I run? Nope. Players all make their characters together at session zero. If someone leaves my game and wants to take their PC with them and run in another game, fine. But I'm generally not going let someone bring a character from another campaign into mine. I'm not saying I would NEVER do this, but it would be difficult to see how this would work. It isn't really the mechanical aspects I'm concerned about but the back story is highly unlikely to make sense. And if you start adjusting the back story, its not really the same character from the prior campaign. </p><p></p><p>Maybe it would work if I were running in more popular settings like Forgotten Realms or Eberron, but I'm not. The only campaign I could see this working in in the decade I've run 5e campaigns would have been Curse of Strahd, where that nature of that demiplane makes it very easy, story wise to bring someone into it with their entire backstory from a prior campaign. In that campaign, as long as the PC was level appropriate for where the other PCs were within that campaign, I would not have had an issue with someone bringing in their character from another campaign.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9280363, member: 6796661"] This was the norm when I played Basic and Advanced D&D in the 80s. This style of play still loves on in Adventurer's League, but that comes with a bunch of additional rules for league-legal PCs. For the campaigns that I run? Nope. Players all make their characters together at session zero. If someone leaves my game and wants to take their PC with them and run in another game, fine. But I'm generally not going let someone bring a character from another campaign into mine. I'm not saying I would NEVER do this, but it would be difficult to see how this would work. It isn't really the mechanical aspects I'm concerned about but the back story is highly unlikely to make sense. And if you start adjusting the back story, its not really the same character from the prior campaign. Maybe it would work if I were running in more popular settings like Forgotten Realms or Eberron, but I'm not. The only campaign I could see this working in in the decade I've run 5e campaigns would have been Curse of Strahd, where that nature of that demiplane makes it very easy, story wise to bring someone into it with their entire backstory from a prior campaign. In that campaign, as long as the PC was level appropriate for where the other PCs were within that campaign, I would not have had an issue with someone bringing in their character from another campaign. [/QUOTE]
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