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We spade or neuter them on the third offense
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Previous campaign: the PC is presumed to still be there, but “off camera,” and fights were rebalanced so their fair share of monsters...
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Depends. If the party is some variation of 'in town', it is fairly easy to just assume the missing character(s) are sleeping it off or...
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For my gaming circles... When a group is GM and 5+ players, we typically move forward if one player is absent, cancel for that week if...
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We’ve got a group that have been playing together for several years now. First, we don’t tend to have a problem with this. We all talk...
Jan 8, 2026
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If my group (DM + 6 players) had one player being absent because of something in RL, we would still go through with our RPG session. The...
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Maybe it's because we all play video games, but missing players have never been a big deal to us. They're just not there...
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We currently contrive an excuse for why their character isn’t there. Including a retcon if necessary. It’s absolutely fine if that is...
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It depends on the game. Eg in our Traveller game, the character are all part of a ship's crew, and so are all "there" where the ship is...
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With a single player, we almost always hand off the character to someone else; in rare cases we might have a character have a...
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If I'm the GM/DM, I have a VTT on a big sceen at/beside the table for players that have to be home, but still able to play remotely. For...
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My GM had to drop tomorrow night so we are pivoting to board games.
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My group has 3 players and we play if we have 2. We are playing Quests From the Infinite Staircase and the book says Nafas (the genie...
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Tar and feathering. Oh? You were asking how we handle the character? Oops.
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I recognize you were just making one of the classic dnd jokes but I'm now realizing I could have been clearer.
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