Mmm as an occasional dm i generally wouldn’t allow cross-campaign characters. I’ve also never run multiple campaigns within the same timeframe and setting so it’d rarely be feasible as is. Then you also get into level, gear, etc. Sorry dawg, new character means new character.
Within the campaign you have agency. Across multiple campaigns and we’d need a long talk.
I don’t consider each session of a west marches campaign as separate campaigns. That’s a single campaign and then yes, a different one of your characters could potentially be looped in.
…if player characters aren’t at liberty to move between campaigns, then ultimately no, they don’t have agency: they’re just ephemeral labor playing-out the DM’s narrative with nothing to show for it afterward…
…mind, i’m not damning that arrangement - some folks enjoy the transient experience - but i have no interest in investing my own creative energy toward anything that i don’t keep…
I build the world your characters does what they want. If I build two worlds and you want a character from world one to go to world two that’s not an “agency” problem but a logistical one. Why and how your character would transfer, general balance of combat/interactions, etc.
Games are ultimately transient, that’s just their nature. The controller gets put down the board is packed up. You don’t get to transfer your oblivion character to morrowind or skyrim. You don’t transfer assets from one game of catan to the next time you play. Were here for the experience not for “something to show for it”…Idk your perspective is so entitled and alien to me…let’s just be glad we don’t game together and I hope you treat your dm very well.
Mmm as an occasional dm i generally wouldn’t allow cross-campaign characters. I’ve also never run multiple campaigns within the same timeframe and setting so it’d rarely be feasible as is. Then you also get into level, gear, etc. Sorry dawg, new character means new character.
…fair enough; i don’t invest my time in campaigns where players don’t retain agency over their own characters…
…west marches vs. one-shot campaigns, plenty of tables for both styles…
Within the campaign you have agency. Across multiple campaigns and we’d need a long talk.
I don’t consider each session of a west marches campaign as separate campaigns. That’s a single campaign and then yes, a different one of your characters could potentially be looped in.
…if player characters aren’t at liberty to move between campaigns, then ultimately no, they don’t have agency: they’re just ephemeral labor playing-out the DM’s narrative with nothing to show for it afterward…
…mind, i’m not damning that arrangement - some folks enjoy the transient experience - but i have no interest in investing my own creative energy toward anything that i don’t keep…
(i already deal with that sixty-five hours every week and remuneration barely suffices to stay my contempt)
I build the world your characters does what they want. If I build two worlds and you want a character from world one to go to world two that’s not an “agency” problem but a logistical one. Why and how your character would transfer, general balance of combat/interactions, etc.
Games are ultimately transient, that’s just their nature. The controller gets put down the board is packed up. You don’t get to transfer your oblivion character to morrowind or skyrim. You don’t transfer assets from one game of catan to the next time you play. Were here for the experience not for “something to show for it”…Idk your perspective is so entitled and alien to me…let’s just be glad we don’t game together and I hope you treat your dm very well.