In the AD&D game I play in, we all keep a stable of characters so we just switch out characters whenever we see fit. That way if someone is playing a Paladin, we can play our non evil characters or one of the Neutral aligned ones (for one session, per the rules).
I’ve Never played in a campaign like that with multiple pc’s. I’d like to some day
Pretty easy to do in 1e. In 5e it’s a whole damn event making a character
The character tree from the original Dark Sun is brilliant.
I have to read dark sun. Its the one glaring thing missing from my collection that I may be interested in