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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5679702" data-attributes="member: 19675">What I'd suggest is that you write the ideas up.  I've only really done character hopping in 2 campaigns...but in each case it was due to campaign reasons.  in one, it was because EVERYONE in the campaign ran different PCs at different XP levels depending on what storyline the DM wanted to tell.In the other the 2 people playing healers left the group, so I stepped up and retired my PC in order to play a healer.  (But I did it myyyyyyyyyy waaaaaaaayyyy!)However, I always feel the urge.  I design PCs in about 4 different systems all the time, and a few beyond that as circumstances arise.  As a result, I have a stable of thousands waiting to be played.For instance, we only started playing 4Ed in 2010 when a new guy joined the group and volunteered to run it.  I'm still playing my original PC in that group: a Dwarven Starlock multiclassed into Psion.  I've got a tentative plan for him out to 20th level.And if you looked at my postings in the 4Ed forum, you might have noticed I have used ENWorld to design at least 3 other PCs...all fleshed out and ready to run.It serves 3 functions:1) it improves your system mastery2) it gets the PC into a relatively fixed format, which means its not bouncing around your head demanding attention and distracting you.3) it gives you a PC you're intimately familiar with and you can run if you need to</blockquote>