Mark
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I'd opt for a completely contrived scenario...
Teleportation accident!
Next time the group teleports (or planewalks or etc.) hand them all their new character sheets. Have these prepared in advance and make them up based on the current characters and collect their old character sheets. Do this by taking the 18 characters and melding them into 9 characters. Take the high level ones and half their level (roughly). Add to them the low level ones so that the group is composed of 9 characters of equal levels regardless of who previously played who (they should all be multi-classed now). If possible, try and allow each player to retain their highest level character, or at least one of their previous characters. I'm guessing that you will wind up with 9 characters of tenth or twelfth level.
They're going to gripe, of course, but let them know that it is a fluke scenario that they can hopefully be smart enough to rectify if they work together as a group. Think nothing more of it and enjoy the game in its much easier format.
I'd opt for a completely contrived scenario...
Teleportation accident!
Next time the group teleports (or planewalks or etc.) hand them all their new character sheets. Have these prepared in advance and make them up based on the current characters and collect their old character sheets. Do this by taking the 18 characters and melding them into 9 characters. Take the high level ones and half their level (roughly). Add to them the low level ones so that the group is composed of 9 characters of equal levels regardless of who previously played who (they should all be multi-classed now). If possible, try and allow each player to retain their highest level character, or at least one of their previous characters. I'm guessing that you will wind up with 9 characters of tenth or twelfth level.
They're going to gripe, of course, but let them know that it is a fluke scenario that they can hopefully be smart enough to rectify if they work together as a group. Think nothing more of it and enjoy the game in its much easier format.
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