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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 3803540" data-attributes="member: 467">I think you are imagining a hard cut off where there might not be one.&nbsp; That is, when he says characters die or retire doesn't mean a whole bunch of them do so at any iven time.&nbsp; Remember, it also isn't uncommon in long term campaigns for new characters to come in at low level regardless of where the old PCs were.&nbsp; Esp. if you are playing a game like AD&amp;D where the difference in level between a 1st level and 8th level character is less obvious than 3.x&nbsp; A new character takes on an old character as a mentor, who gives the new character some gear to help keep him alve while they adventure together with the new character &quot;watching and learning&quot; a lot, and occassionally doing post battle clean up.3E doesn't really support long term play, out of the box anyway.&nbsp; Levels come too fast, differences between characters only a couple levels apart are too great and 3E character never make the transition from adventurers to leaders (in a mehcnaically supported way, anyway -- that is to say that character advancement continues to be about adventuring/combat abilities all the way through 1 to 20).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 3803540, member: 467"] I think you are imagining a hard cut off where there might not be one. That is, when he says characters die or retire doesn't mean a whole bunch of them do so at any iven time. Remember, it also isn't uncommon in long term campaigns for new characters to come in at low level regardless of where the old PCs were. Esp. if you are playing a game like AD&D where the difference in level between a 1st level and 8th level character is less obvious than 3.x A new character takes on an old character as a mentor, who gives the new character some gear to help keep him alve while they adventure together with the new character "watching and learning" a lot, and occassionally doing post battle clean up. 3E doesn't really support long term play, out of the box anyway. Levels come too fast, differences between characters only a couple levels apart are too great and 3E character never make the transition from adventurers to leaders (in a mehcnaically supported way, anyway -- that is to say that character advancement continues to be about adventuring/combat abilities all the way through 1 to 20). [/QUOTE]

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