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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mishihari Lord" data-source="post: 6004623" data-attributes="member: 128">I did the "start again at first level" thing for a very long time in AD&D.  It's not as bad as it sounds.  As long as the PCs could take the initiative, they were smart enough to be able to send characters where they were needed with appropriate challenges.  Frex, the 10th level fighter would hold off the enemy champion while the 2nd level fighter would go kill the orc holding the gate shut so the rest of the part could get into the room.  As long as the DM avoids area effect spells, it's not hard.  And with AD&D's xp tables, new PCs got back to near the level of the party very, very quickly.  Later on we we had new characters come in at four levels less than the lowest level character.I think PC death should hurt.  Coming back at the same level with a character that's optimized for the current level rather than organically grown doesn't hurt.  Always winning is really boring.</blockquote>