I know a lot of people are/were generally dissapointed with the inability to continue their characters from RoR to SaS. I personally stopped playing RoR with my group when SaS was announced because of this. (I have played through it recently however.)
While I have some very grand ideas about how to continue playing your actual character in future APs, I'm going to wait until WotR to come out to actually start working on that.
In the meantime I present "The Legacy", a simple variant inspired by other repeatable campaign style RPG games that work like PACG.
The idea behind the Legacy is that your character in the new AP is descended from or somehow related to your last character. To represent this you simply do a few things differently when constructing your character deck in whichever AP you are playing next.
1) Choose a loot card your previous character has in their deck. The chosen card gains the Owner: NAME trait where NAME is the name of your new character. This represents the treaure, knowledge or connections your previous characters passes on to the next.
2) Your new character gains a card feat. If your new character does not have access to the card type of your inherited loot card, you must choose that card feat. This represents the experience gained from being related to a successful adventurer.
3) When building your starting deck, use basic cards from either AP (or a class deck). This allows some of the flavor of the previous AP to seep into the new one. This represents your character being from a different place than where the current AP takes place.
The idea here is that it doesn't matter which AP you start with and that since you are only including 1 powerful card and increasing your life total by 1, it shouldn't be totally game breaking but instead just give you a little variation on your play through.
I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on this. If this exact thing has already come up just ignore my ramblings (I tried to look here and on BGG but I didn't find anything this simple.)
Thanks!
