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Message: <blockquote data-quote="1StrangeFellow" data-source="post: 139867" data-attributes="member: 3954">If you're afraid of losing the players, you could always give them an option:  You can play using these characters one last time, or we can start over now.  Tell them why.  But I really wouldn't let them continue to use characters that have advanced six levels without any DM knowledge of the character's abilities.  If you don't know their stats well enough to challenge them, you don't know what they have changed or tweaked on their character sheets.That's a problem.  As long as they continue to play those characters, and you can't prove a thing, they will always have the idea that they have pulled something over on the DM.  That's not an ideal gaming environment.  The temptation will be there to try to do other things to gain an unfair advantage.If you did 'kill all the PCs', I would certainly explain why after the fact and ask them if they wouldn't rather play in a campaign where they can actually be challenged (although if they have been playing for two levels straight without any challenges and don't seem to have a problem with it then it seems they are only interested in loot and experience, and not the actual process of roleplaying, anyway.  You might as well just make them 20th level and let them start pursuing godhood.)</blockquote>