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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7289328" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!So many people look at the loss of a level from being raised purely from the perspective of a PC. Now, I'm talking 1e AD&D here. Other versions have had different takes. When looking at rules and reasons for 1e, you should look at it from the perspective of "the campaign as a whole and from the viewpoint of a commoner". If you do that as a DM, you can adjudicate ANY situation with more and more ease as you get used to the system and the world.Ahem. Now. The "loose a level" thing. From the perspective of a commoner...even if you are a noble and have tens of thousands of gold to bribe/convince a high enough level cleric to cast Raise Dead on your recently departed, it won't work. This is common knowledge. Oh, why, you ask? Commoners...from the beggar to the rich noble, are "0-level". Then don't have a level to loose so Raise Dead would automatically fail.THIS is why there was a "loose a level". It reinforced the concept that if you were a "classed" character, you were special. Period. Oh, that captain of the watch is "only" 4th level? Guess what? if he dies, he CAN be raised from the dead. The 50 men-at-arms under his command? Nope. Not them. They die, they stay dead.This whole "look at it from a campaign and commoner perspective", and, as far as I remember, every so-called 'arbitrary' rule in 1e suddenly makes sense. But that's for another thread probably. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As others pointed out...starting a new character at the same level as the other(s) is very much a house rule. As far as I can tell, in 5e, if you die, you roll up a new character at 1st level. Doesn't matter if everyone is 4th, 14th, or 24th. Your new PC is 1st level.After about a year of playing 5e, I house ruled that new characters were 3 levels lower than the average PC level (rounding down), but never higher than 3rd!. So as soon as the PC's had an average party level of 6th or more, your new PC was starting at 3rd. You got to start with 100gp worth or equipment per level. So 100, 200 or 300 gold pieces with which to buy your equipment. No magic items. My reasoning was that 1st and 2nd level zip by so dang fast in 5e...especially if the other PC's are higher level...that starting at 1st seemed like a waste of time if after one encounter the PC is either rocketed to 3rd level, or dead.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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