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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 5144921" data-attributes="member: 7808">Of course, the downside to this is that the players who start off by rotating through characters quickly now have less incentive to stick with a character (even if they find one they like) because it's not as involved in the story as the other characters.  This is a problem if the DM is tryinig to encourage players to stick with one character, rather than playing along with it.I would imagine that the incentive of all new characters starting with a minor penalty compared to the rest of the group (a small XP drop, just slightly below normal wealth amount, must have a minor curse at the time of character generation) would go a long way.  Don't make the penalty so big that it's crippling, but just big enough for the players (especially powergamers) to want to avoid it.  Make the penalty worse if a new character starts at a plot-critial point in the story, and have no penalty at all for times in between major plot when it makes sense for the group to lose and add characters.</blockquote>