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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oni" data-source="post: 472330" data-attributes="member: 380">I say allow it, you want  your players to enjoy the game don't you?  I can think of a couple of occasions where I've switched characters.  In one instance it was because the character had run his course and I just felt like it was time to move onto a new character.  He died an arranged death having been captured, he was executed for refusing to fight in a pit battle (against my new character who was summarily freed by the other PC's who had arrived just a moment to late).  The other occasion was one where I felt the campaign had taken a direction that wouldn't allow me to really explore the facets of the character i wanted to play and so i wanted to do something more appropriate.  The DM and i decided that she had actually been a doppleganger for several sessions who had convincingly infiltrated the party, my new character showed up on the trail of the doppleganger in question.  I can think of a third occassion where I would have switched characters if the campaign had not ended at that point, this being because a major event had such a profound effect on the character that he was no longer the person I was interested in roleplaying (he had mistakenly caused the death of a great many innocents based on poorly related intel from another player, destroyed more or less by the telephone game). Anyway I'm rambling, talk to your players, find out why they want to make the switch, and then have them draw straws (or decide amoung themselves) who wants to go first and replace the characters over several sessions in plausible ways.  That's my advice for what it's worth.</blockquote>

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