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<blockquote data-quote="Psychic Warrior" data-source="post: 1979104" data-attributes="member: 17733"><p>I am glad I'm not the only person who has had difficulty is resolving this kind of thing. I talked on the phone with the player in question and we reincarnated his character (we both rolled and i allowed him to take the more desireable result - he ended up as a gnome! The other choice was halfling. After I gave him some details on the gnomes of the Scarred Lands he seemed much happier and said this actually sounded very interesting. He's going to multiclass as a Druid now (the favoured class of gnomes in the SL) and wil be spending some time with the Druid who reincarnated him to possiblty gain enough experience points to go up a level (he's actually very close to regaining the level he lost reincaranting as he is writing a character background which, in my campaign, nets you about 1800 XP). He might even choose the Spirit Shaman from Complete Arcane (? - maybe it's Complete Divine) which I would house rule is the favoured class of gnomes since it's mechanics fit the background og gnomes far better than the 'vanilla' druid.</p><p></p><p>As for the future I think my rules on absentism are going to change. Before the PCs of absent players would be run by other players but after this I don't know anymore. Obviously I'm going to talk about it with my players and find out what they prefer but I think i might go the 'fade into the background' route whenever possible fom now on. There are 2 other players who miss games (especailly in winter with being 2 hours away) and right now I have them played by other players but only earning 1/2 XP. There is the danger of them dying (like happened here) but they at least are not falling too far behind the rest of the group in levels (I think the one Fighter is 5th and about 1500 XP from 6th while the other is 5th and about 4000XP from 6th. Most of the rest of the group are 6th but most of them have written the character backgrounds to get the 1800XP bonus). Of couse if I do the fade to the background (which has already happened to the one character as his player won't be back until summer) they won't gain any XP. Well I'll defer to the players' wishes - they are thewir characters afterall. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Psychic Warrior, post: 1979104, member: 17733"] I am glad I'm not the only person who has had difficulty is resolving this kind of thing. I talked on the phone with the player in question and we reincarnated his character (we both rolled and i allowed him to take the more desireable result - he ended up as a gnome! The other choice was halfling. After I gave him some details on the gnomes of the Scarred Lands he seemed much happier and said this actually sounded very interesting. He's going to multiclass as a Druid now (the favoured class of gnomes in the SL) and wil be spending some time with the Druid who reincarnated him to possiblty gain enough experience points to go up a level (he's actually very close to regaining the level he lost reincaranting as he is writing a character background which, in my campaign, nets you about 1800 XP). He might even choose the Spirit Shaman from Complete Arcane (? - maybe it's Complete Divine) which I would house rule is the favoured class of gnomes since it's mechanics fit the background og gnomes far better than the 'vanilla' druid. As for the future I think my rules on absentism are going to change. Before the PCs of absent players would be run by other players but after this I don't know anymore. Obviously I'm going to talk about it with my players and find out what they prefer but I think i might go the 'fade into the background' route whenever possible fom now on. There are 2 other players who miss games (especailly in winter with being 2 hours away) and right now I have them played by other players but only earning 1/2 XP. There is the danger of them dying (like happened here) but they at least are not falling too far behind the rest of the group in levels (I think the one Fighter is 5th and about 1500 XP from 6th while the other is 5th and about 4000XP from 6th. Most of the rest of the group are 6th but most of them have written the character backgrounds to get the 1800XP bonus). Of couse if I do the fade to the background (which has already happened to the one character as his player won't be back until summer) they won't gain any XP. Well I'll defer to the players' wishes - they are thewir characters afterall. :) [/QUOTE]
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