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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8519031" data-attributes="member: 29398">The starting point is irrelevant.&nbsp; You could start at level 20 and even then the characters would in theory still be members of their species' populations, only with more abilities etc. acquired through experience and training.Underneath all those levels a Dwarf would still be a Dwarf, just like all the other Dwarves.True, you can't hit all the possibilities but you can go through a string of what-ifs and plan ahead for them, and take things learned/ruled on from previous campaigns and bring them forward or tidy them up or re-visit it for the new campaign.I guess were I running an in-print system my take would be that the books and materials that exist at campaign start can be assumed to be the locked-in limit for that campaign unless something new comes out during the campaign's run that blows our socks off, in which case we'll talk about integrating (some of) it and how to least-disrupt or invalidate what went before by so doing.True, but when you've been running for 20 years before that you had that 20 years of experience to draw on beofre this campaign began. (this is one huge advantage of using the same system long-term: rules and rulings from one campaign can - if desired - carry forward into the next, or be tweaked/refined to suit if they didn't work out that well)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8519031, member: 29398"] The starting point is irrelevant. You could start at level 20 and even then the characters would in theory still be members of their species' populations, only with more abilities etc. acquired through experience and training. Underneath all those levels a Dwarf would still be a Dwarf, just like all the other Dwarves. True, you can't hit all the possibilities but you can go through a string of what-ifs and plan ahead for them, and take things learned/ruled on from previous campaigns and bring them forward or tidy them up or re-visit it for the new campaign. I guess were I running an in-print system my take would be that the books and materials that exist at campaign start can be assumed to be the locked-in limit for that campaign unless something new comes out during the campaign's run that blows our socks off, in which case we'll talk about integrating (some of) it and how to least-disrupt or invalidate what went before by so doing. True, but when you've been running for 20 years before that you had that 20 years of experience to draw on beofre this campaign began. (this is one huge advantage of using the same system long-term: rules and rulings from one campaign can - if desired - carry forward into the next, or be tweaked/refined to suit if they didn't work out that well) [/QUOTE]

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