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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Green Knight" data-source="post: 373522" data-attributes="member: 2723">I ask because that's an idea that I had recently and will be playing in a Forgotten Realms game I'll soon be playing in, and in a Ravenloft game I may start soon after.  In the Forgotten Realms game the idea is this: The character was about 12th level when he got captured by enemies and thrown into a dungeon, taking all his fancy equipment and selling it off. Worse yet, there was a ghost prowling the dungeon, tormenting the prisoners within and energy draining them. Fortunately, he was able to escape, managing to steal some equipment from the storage room belonging to other prisoners (Equal to the equipment a 1st level character normally starts off with <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) but not before the Ghost drained him down to 1st level.  In the Ravenloft game, this was my idea: The character finds himself on a road, walking into the nearest town, with no memory of who or what he is or how he got on that road or where he's going. Total amnesiac. Unbeknownst to him, he was a much higher level character, but with his loss of memory he also forgot all the experiences he had accumulated, thus rendering him a 1st-level character. Thing is, as he advances in level, again, he regains bits and pieces of his memory. So once he reaches the level which he was originally at, he'll have regained all his memories.  Anyway, those are 2 ways that I've come up with to start a new campaign with a 1st-level character who was previously of higher levels. So has anyone else done this? And if so, how did you do it?  BTW: The reason I did it in the first case was because I wanted a character in his late 30's with a much deeper background then your average 1st-level PC, and being 1st-level with 0 XP just wouldn't fit. In the second case, I've been wanting to play an amnesiac in Ravenloft after watching an episode of The Twilight Zone in which you have the same scenario. A guy with no memory of who he is or how he got on that road stumbles into town (Except that the town is empty). Been wanting to do something similar ever since, and I thought getting more memories back as I advanced in level would be a good idea.</blockquote>

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