Players walk in to prefilled character sheets. Their characters are all peons in a battle that’s about to commence. Every time they die, they raise in rank and in level. They retain the memories they’ve gained while being other people and can choose which army to side with when they enter their next body.
Individual players choosing sides could get messy fast, but it sounds like an interesting idea. Paizo are doing something akin with one of their next adventures, with the players spending the first chapter as low level refugees, then soldiers in the war in the second chapter, then high level knights defeating the source of the war in the final chapter.
What is the name of that adventure? Are the characters the same with a time jump or different characters?
Claws of the Tyrant, and it’s different characters for each. Also I was wrong about it being upcoming, it released last month.