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A question I've had simmering in the back of my mind for a couple decades
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<blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 1411473" data-attributes="member: 11064"><p>We used to do this all the time in middle & high school. It was mostly a group of maybe 15 of us that played D&D on anything like a regular basis, usually at lunch or on weekends. Since you never knew who would be playing, or how long it would take, we used to drop in and out all the time. If someone didn't have a character that was of the right level, we would just pull out the Rogues Gallery, and randomly pick a character out of the book that was the appropriate class and level. Most of what we played were modules or single adventures, the campaigns I knew about were reserved for the "Serious Roleplayers" who were usually older than everyone else (usually someones older brother and their friends). I had an elf that went from Basic D&D to Advanced and played under probably 6 different DMs over 5 or 6 years. Was it consistant? Hell no, but it was fun. Plus, as has been mentioned before, making up characters was a very common downtime activity. I have a notebook that probably has 50 characters in it that I never played, just because I had time to role them up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cthulhu's Librarian, post: 1411473, member: 11064"] We used to do this all the time in middle & high school. It was mostly a group of maybe 15 of us that played D&D on anything like a regular basis, usually at lunch or on weekends. Since you never knew who would be playing, or how long it would take, we used to drop in and out all the time. If someone didn't have a character that was of the right level, we would just pull out the Rogues Gallery, and randomly pick a character out of the book that was the appropriate class and level. Most of what we played were modules or single adventures, the campaigns I knew about were reserved for the "Serious Roleplayers" who were usually older than everyone else (usually someones older brother and their friends). I had an elf that went from Basic D&D to Advanced and played under probably 6 different DMs over 5 or 6 years. Was it consistant? Hell no, but it was fun. Plus, as has been mentioned before, making up characters was a very common downtime activity. I have a notebook that probably has 50 characters in it that I never played, just because I had time to role them up. [/QUOTE]
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