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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 2405010" data-attributes="member: 22424">In my last campaign, all PCs had the same XP total (less anything spent on making magic items), so new characters came in with that same total. Of course, no character died and was raised - a few received Trtue Resurrections, though. For my next campaign, I was going to rule that a ne wPC to replace a character who died came in either one lower level than the rest of the group or 25,000gp down (the cost of the True Resurrection), while a PC brought in the replace a character who retired had the same XP total of the departed character.However, all of this is irrelevant to your question.I would stick with the same ruling you have used so far: new characters have the same XP total as the lowest total in the party. The fact that this 'new' character is actually the old character returned is irrelevant to this. The only exception I would make is if the old character had a higher XP total when he left than the current lowest total in the group (and so would lose XP upon returning). In that case, I'd bring him back as-is.(Note, if the character goes up in level as a result of 'being away', I would grant him the chance to re-equip using the PC wealth per level table in the DMG, or whatever equivalent holds in the campaign.)</blockquote>