D&D General Have you ever retired a character?

[MarkB]

I retired a sorcerer in a very high-level 3.5e campaign because, as effective as he was, I wound up feeling like I wasn't playing a person, I was playing a walking artillery piece.

 

[BookTenTiger]

I've always wanted to run a campaign in which the first round of characters retire at 5th Level. The second round of characters start at 5th Level and are the children / mentees / students etc of the previous characters.

The second round of characters retires at 10th Level, and then a third round of characters starts at 10th Level as the next generation.

Each time the characters retire, the campaign world moves 20 years or so into the future.

I think it would be a really epic campaign!

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

I've always wanted to run a campaign in which the first round of characters retire at 5th Level. The second round of characters start at 5th Level and are the children / mentees / students etc of the previous characters.

The second round of characters retires at 10th Level, and then a third round of characters starts at 10th Level as the next generation.

Each time the characters retire, the campaign world moves 20 years or so into the future.

I think it would be a really epic campaign!

Do it in reverse. 15-20 first, the next generation, is 10-15 etc...

Each new generation never quite living up to the expectations of the previous.

"Oh! Fireball, eh? Well in my day, we had to cast Time Stop three times a day just to go to school. In five feet of snow, up hill both ways, while being hunted by Pit fiends."

 

[Sacrosanct]

Several times. Usually when they reach name level or so (level 9). For various reasons, mostly campaign ending or I want to play something different.

 

[jdrakeh]

I'm mean, I've had a few Call of Cthulhu characters go completely insane in the middle of campaigns. They retired to a sanitarium.