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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7153055" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>I think the assumption <strong><span style="color: #800080">A</span></strong> being made in the poll's wording is that sidelining a character directly equates to sidelining that character's player...which in many cases is what probably happens, given a further assumption <strong><span style="color: #800080">B</span></strong> that the player's role at the table is to do nothing more (nor less) than play that character.</p><p></p><p>There are many ways to defeat assumption <strong><span style="color: #800080">B</span></strong> - the player can run monsters, or a party NPC (they're really useful for this!), or have been running two characters all along, or go on a beer-and-snacks run - but without involving any such to break the player-character link then the two assumptions above do in fact make this poll make sense.</p><p></p><p>Lan-"I may well hold the sideline futility record: I once waited 5 sessions for a party to find my character; and when they did they accidentally killed him"-efan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7153055, member: 29398"] I think the assumption [B][COLOR="#800080"]A[/COLOR][/B] being made in the poll's wording is that sidelining a character directly equates to sidelining that character's player...which in many cases is what probably happens, given a further assumption [B][COLOR="#800080"]B[/COLOR][/B] that the player's role at the table is to do nothing more (nor less) than play that character. There are many ways to defeat assumption [B][COLOR="#800080"]B[/COLOR][/B] - the player can run monsters, or a party NPC (they're really useful for this!), or have been running two characters all along, or go on a beer-and-snacks run - but without involving any such to break the player-character link then the two assumptions above do in fact make this poll make sense. Lan-"I may well hold the sideline futility record: I once waited 5 sessions for a party to find my character; and when they did they accidentally killed him"-efan [/QUOTE]
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