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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rgard" data-source="post: 2553624" data-attributes="member: 4157">Had that happen back in 1E, 1979.  One of the players had a 7th level cleric in one campaign and a 1st level assassin in a different campaign.  The player didn't play the cleric well at all, but his assassin was brutally well played.Several of us players wondered in game or out of game why his cleric didn't cast this spell or that spell or he would fumble through the PHB looking for what cure moderate wounds did.  While in the low level campaign he played the assassin cleverly.Eventually, after many game sessions, he was able to play his cleric well and to the same degree expertise that he played the assassin.After one session the player admitted to me the cleric was rolled up as a 7th level character so that he could play in the higher level campaign.  It was his first D&D character.My reaction was mixed.  On one hand, there was deception involved...he never told anybody at the start that the character was made up from whole cloth (could have lived with that if I had known at inception) and was also annoyed as most of the rest of the players in the campaign had several characters die once or twice, lose levels to wights and wraiths, and other calamities that the DM inflicted on us just trying to get to 7th level.On the other hand, the player and I became good friends through gaming.  We may not have ended up being friends if we had only played in the higher level campaign that met less frequently.So, anecdote aside, it depends on the needs of the gaming group.  If the player of the mid level cleric moves to Russia and your group no longer has as a character to fill that critical niche, you need to consider bringing somebody in to run a recently rolled up mid level cleric.  Would be better for running a smooth session if the new player has actually played a mid level cleric in the past.If the player wasn't joining the group to fill a need and wanted to play a mid level anything, I would say no to joining if the player was new to the game and would steer him or her to a low level campaign.Thanks,Rich</blockquote>

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