Quote Originally Posted by Rase View Post
The only ways I can think of doing this are if you KNOW what a characters level will be (and set the new characters starting level to that), did something with variables (I'm not to knowledgeable about these, so it may be a possibility or not) or if you use some sort of script. I may be wrong here, but to my knowledge there aren't any other ways to "transfer" one characters level to another.
I'm not sure about XP, but in 2003 you could set a variable to the same value as the level of a party member. You can then add the amount of levels stored in a variable to a character. So all you would have to do is remove the Dark Knight from the party, create an event that sets a variable to his level then subtract one from this variable (to compensate for the fact that the Paladin will start at level 1), put the Paladin in the party and add the amount of levels in the variable to him.

This works in 2003, but as I said I haven't checked if you can do the same in XP.

*checks if XP is still installed*

EDIT: Yep, looks like you can do the same in XP as well.