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The D&D Avengers

As part of my on-going home game, I've been working with the players to give them the option for more variety in the game sessions.  As a group we are all new to 4th Edition.  I wanted to offer my players a method where they could play around with trying out all the possible combinations that they would like to enjoy without them feeling penalized as far as Experience and Treasure being gained by the group and that their respective characters would have as far as equipment.

In order to remedy this we've been working on a couple of "house rules".  First, for characters that come in new, they are generated per the rules in the DMG for starting above 1st level.  Second, for PCs that are "sent off on side missions", they lose all equipment and gold and can not come back into active play until the group advances a level.  Those characters that go on these "side quests" come back with magic items and gold equivalent to a character starting at the same level per the DMG.