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Originally Posted by Kromm
Take the character that's the source of my nickname: Dr. Kromm. He has been a villain in a James Bond 007 campaign, the chief medical officer of a moon colony in a Space Opera campaign, a naturalist in a Call of Cthulhu campaign, an inventor in a GURPS campaign ...
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This discussion might work more easily with some terminology.
Dr. Kromm is an example of using the same personality and characterisation in lots of different games.
Another thing that is playing "the same character" is taking the same character sheet from game to game. This works fine if the games have sufficiently similar settings, power levels and play styles, and everyone is happy with the idea.
There's also a large tangle of related ideas between these two poles, which includes things like "Bob
always plays ninjas, with
his rules of honour," trying to translate characters between different game systems, rather than rebuilding them, claiming one campaign is the afterlife of another, and so on.