re-joining the party after a death

[ecz]

the rules do not cover how to handle the death of a PC in a group where all adventurers are already seasoned heroes.

It seems unfair and not funny if the new PC re-borns as a 32 points ordinary starting hero. This new PC could be too weak if compared to his colleagues adventurers possibly with an average of 38-40 points or even more.

So we decided that who (re)joins an already existing party starts his/her new hero at the level of the lower active PC in the group furtherly decreased by one.

So if for example Carsten dies and Gino -the player- creates a new hero to rejoin the group including Zev (40 points) Evah (37 points) and Ricov (36 points), Gino's new PC will have 35 points.


Of course the level of the dead hero works as a cap for the new one ( to avoid that the newborn hero have more points of the hero just deceased changing the unfortunate event in a lucky one). If Carsten had 34 points, the new PC taking his place cannot exceed that number.

This is the most easy and fair house rule I have adopted, largely appreciated by the players.

Opinions?