Four thoughts/concerns:
a) If the characters don't carry over, then pretty much all of the early 2nd edition scenarios will have to start lower levels for a bit since we will have to create new characters and get them advanced. As one of the newer players, this will be frustrating to me. I would really like it if certain of the boons (one that I am thinking of was from a special) that let players jump a starting character from level 1 to 2 would be transferable. Heck, modify it so that it lets you start 1 character at (GM stars)+2, so some of the long-timers could theoretically start a character as high as 7th level.
b) Similar lines, I would like to see some benefits along the lines of the welcome boon. Also, how is the new numbering going to work? Will new chars start around 1k with the welcome to 2nd edition boon being locked to 1001?
c) The book boons. I've been working fairly hard on getting the book boons in preparation for a character concept I have (buying and reading many of the books, but have not used a single boon yet). Losing these is kind of a disincentive from buying any more books till the new boons come out and I can see which sets I want to collect.
d) Overall, I would really like the assign-to-new character boons to carry over, and/or be somehow transferable since I and others have spend significant time/effort/real-world-money earning such things and having them lose their value would be disheartening in the extreme
Just my 2 cents,
Thanks
