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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 9621204" data-attributes="member: 1125">I played Orbril the gnome (Alchemist and Master of the Grand Circus Maximus) over a few campaigns across maybe 4 or 5 different rules systems starting as a young gnomling leaving the burrow, through his apprenticeship as a young alchemist, his adventuring career, writing Treatises of Geology, Alchemy and Pyrotechnics, losing his finger when tortured by bandits, catching a pair of giant hamsters, starting a travelling circus (and breeding hamsters), spreading giant hamsters to all the gnome burrows around the world, his brush with politics, experiments in agriculture and aquaculture, extraplanar diplomacy, becoming a Professor of Applied Alchemy and eventual partial-retirement in the Fae Realm as a guest of the Fae Queen.  He still shows up now and then as an NPC - but often just a glimpse of a Hamster pulled wagon driving pass as   the PCs arrive in town...Converting him between different systems was a challenge which is probably one reason I gravitated to free form narrative games rather than having to worry about converting math problems.Other characters I might revisit in new campaigns but usually that's just taking the character concept and rebuilding them for the new rules (eg I had a half-giant character who later became a Goliath)</blockquote>