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<blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 7269041" data-attributes="member: 5038">My own personal experience was different.&nbsp; Outside of organized play (which I avoid like the plague), I had only seen it done twice during the 80's. The first was my one and only time of being&nbsp; willing to consider allowing another character provided some alterations were made.&nbsp; However, after informing the player in question about the changes that would have to be made to bring the character in line with the party, it became an argument and the character was not allowed.&nbsp; The second time was a special one-shot in which a roommate's original group decided to bring their 18th-20th level characters out of retirement for an adventure. Since&nbsp; I was not a player in that original game, I was asked to bring a character.&nbsp; With the exception of the two aforementioned occasions, every DM with whom I had played from LA to Irvine always required a) new players to create a new character; and b) all players to do so when a new campaign was started within a group.&nbsp; Recently, a DM who played with the original Pasadena group back in the mid-70, required me to roll a new character for his 0D&amp;D game which kind of surprised me as I kept hearing how the original players (which predate me by about 5 years) would allow people to bring old characters from other campaigns.&nbsp; I expected his invitation to include bringing my own character of an appropriate level, but I was told to swing on by and make up a character (on the other hand, his DMing style was, completely, different from what I had seen elsewhere- lots of random die rolls to determine things that most DMs whom I have encountered would simply make a quick mental decision and move on).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg K, post: 7269041, member: 5038"] My own personal experience was different. Outside of organized play (which I avoid like the plague), I had only seen it done twice during the 80's. The first was my one and only time of being willing to consider allowing another character provided some alterations were made. However, after informing the player in question about the changes that would have to be made to bring the character in line with the party, it became an argument and the character was not allowed. The second time was a special one-shot in which a roommate's original group decided to bring their 18th-20th level characters out of retirement for an adventure. Since I was not a player in that original game, I was asked to bring a character. With the exception of the two aforementioned occasions, every DM with whom I had played from LA to Irvine always required a) new players to create a new character; and b) all players to do so when a new campaign was started within a group. Recently, a DM who played with the original Pasadena group back in the mid-70, required me to roll a new character for his 0D&D game which kind of surprised me as I kept hearing how the original players (which predate me by about 5 years) would allow people to bring old characters from other campaigns. I expected his invitation to include bringing my own character of an appropriate level, but I was told to swing on by and make up a character (on the other hand, his DMing style was, completely, different from what I had seen elsewhere- lots of random die rolls to determine things that most DMs whom I have encountered would simply make a quick mental decision and move on). [/QUOTE]

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