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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5797689" data-attributes="member: 10479">For (O)D&D, we played it straight; if you died, you rolled up a new first level character.  Sometime during 1E and through 2E, when I DMed, I used a house rule where if someone died they rerolled a new character but advanced that character to the lowest level of the existing party (by XP total) that was in attendance.  Essentially, this meant the party always moved forward but there was some definite incentive to stay alive, to preserve institutional memory.  And XP was not equally divided in those days and in some cases characters got bonus XP for high stats, early on, as I recall.Of course, this meant that you didn't want to die on the day when someone showed up who only was there once every month or two.  It also meant that the guy who only was there once every month or two would very bravely take point in hopes of advancing through his next character a couple of levels via suicide by monster and rolling up a new PC.  I think we sometimes just had someone who was rarely showing up advance the PC he already had in order to avoid such scenarios. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>