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<blockquote data-quote="ninjayeti" data-source="post: 8531161" data-attributes="member: 6789120">I think this was a bit of a thing back in the 70s and 80's when it was fairly well accepted for a player to bring an existing PC into another DM's game.&nbsp; People tended to be more strict about leveling by the book in my experience, so the only way to start above 1st level was to use an existing PC.&nbsp;&nbsp; Obviously this required some rationale why the PC had traveled between different DM's worlds.&nbsp; In any modern (i.e. last 30 years) game&nbsp; it would be expected that a new player would make up&nbsp; a character of the appropriate level when joining the group, so this would be unnecessary today. Campaigns also tended to be much longer and more rambling.&nbsp; I heard of DMs back in the day deciding Dark Sun was cool, so poof, their existing party is now on Athas.&nbsp; When the got bored of that - poof - you're back in FR.&nbsp; Most people these days treat campaigns as more of a closed story arc, so if a group wanted to run a Dark Sun game they would almost certainly just start a new campaign to do it.So yes, cross-campaign world play was a thing at one point, but in my experience it is as dead as disco today.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ninjayeti, post: 8531161, member: 6789120"] I think this was a bit of a thing back in the 70s and 80's when it was fairly well accepted for a player to bring an existing PC into another DM's game. People tended to be more strict about leveling by the book in my experience, so the only way to start above 1st level was to use an existing PC. Obviously this required some rationale why the PC had traveled between different DM's worlds. In any modern (i.e. last 30 years) game it would be expected that a new player would make up a character of the appropriate level when joining the group, so this would be unnecessary today. Campaigns also tended to be much longer and more rambling. I heard of DMs back in the day deciding Dark Sun was cool, so poof, their existing party is now on Athas. When the got bored of that - poof - you're back in FR. Most people these days treat campaigns as more of a closed story arc, so if a group wanted to run a Dark Sun game they would almost certainly just start a new campaign to do it. So yes, cross-campaign world play was a thing at one point, but in my experience it is as dead as disco today. [/QUOTE]

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