I have a number of characters that are a few years old and just recently I was playing my barbarian a lev 28 barbarian named blackblade and I died in the cow level. Once dead I was shown a ladder screen. I wasnt sure what was happening until I tried to play the barbarian again and it took me to the ladder screen. I then noticed that he had been switched to a hardcore character a long with all of my other characters. Why is this happening? None of them were hardcore to begin with and I have died numerous times on some of them and never had a permanent death. Can someone help me with this. I have many hours in these characters and I had a lot of good hard to find gear on my barb blackblade. This gear included level 75 gear the barbarian would later use like the grandfather sword, ect. I also have a level 81 and 87 necromancers, a level 86 sorceress, and a bunch of mules at random levels. None of my characters should be hardcore. Please help