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Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
This really depends on the social contract of your group.
My general guideline when discussing it with a group is either we write you out for the session and you can't participate but also can't die, or you're there and played by the people who showed.
It sounds like you've had a long running "they aren't here, can't use their stuff" and my guess is that you're not assigning damage to them or having people attack them. So you stuck with what you've been doing - that sounds right to me.
EDIT: And YES, I've been in a group that the PCs were still there and a player came back after a mid-adventure absence to find his character had died. He was mighty annoyed.
My general guideline when discussing it with a group is either we write you out for the session and you can't participate but also can't die, or you're there and played by the people who showed.
It sounds like you've had a long running "they aren't here, can't use their stuff" and my guess is that you're not assigning damage to them or having people attack them. So you stuck with what you've been doing - that sounds right to me.
EDIT: And YES, I've been in a group that the PCs were still there and a player came back after a mid-adventure absence to find his character had died. He was mighty annoyed.
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