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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rollingForInit" data-source="post: 6819526" data-attributes="member: 6793360">In our main campaign, we level by milestone. So same level is required; there's no option. Which works really nicely, since we don't do a lot of combat there. Even in campaigns where we do have a lot of combat, we tend to progress slowly, and so starting a lower level means it'd take quite a long time to catch up, meaning the lower level character will have less to contribute mechanically for a long time. So I always prefer to keep the party even. When we played 4e, we used to have a rule that said if you gave up your character willingly, you got to start at the lowest party level minus 1. If your character died in battle, your new character got to start at the same level as the old one. We ended this while transitioning to 5e, partially because we started with milestones, and partially because at that point we'd realised that we were more motivated to play if we really liked our characters, and punishing players for wanting to change characters didn't feel like a great way to encourage role-playing. We don't change characters excessively, however.</blockquote>