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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 2643732" data-attributes="member: 13098">Nope, it doesn't affect Experience.  But that does bring up a few questions.  1 - When a character dies a permanent death, what level should the replacement character come in at?Historically I run it 1 level lower.  That is to accomodate the level loss for coming back anyway.  I don't want to provide a disincentive to raise characters.  But we are doing away with that issue so replacement characters should happen based on RP reasons rather than purely mechanical reasons.    There is still the possibility that a player could try to build a new character that is much more efficient for the current aspect of the campaign and tend to overshadow other characters.  Being able to focus a PC's abilities to deal with current threats is a nice advantage.  Of course, constantly swapping out PCs, and convincing the group to accept new members, can be a challenge in itself.2 - How should we handle experience awarded when a PC is in transit?  If you guys bring Tormal back, does he benefit from the experience earned while Brandon was playing Gelvin?  After all, he wasn't brought back because the group didn't want to turn around and lose all that time.  Those types of decisions should occur again in the future.  So how do you want to handle it?Ultimately it is up to you guys to decide as a group.  I do ask that we finalize this by the end of this week just so we can plan appropriately.  So think it over and post your thoughts.  Vocal majority decides by Friday October 14.</blockquote>

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