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Very uncharitable interpretation of what I said but if you need to feel this judgemental and condescending, go off I guess.
Jan 9, 2026
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Whew, sometimes I come across a post by a person and think "That really explains a lot about you"
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If a player is absent but we have enough of a quorum to play, the affected PC just kind of hangs out in the background - not really...
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Depends on the number of absent players (the group is 8 people: GM + 7 players), and how log in advance they say they will not show up...
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We do much the same, only our quorum is more-than-half (i.e. if there's 4 or 5 players we sail with 3; if there's 6 players we sail with...
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It depends on the number of players we have. For the most part, we play without them. We're all busy adults, and when you start late or...
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I ran for a long time with 6 of us. 1GM and 5 of players. If one player had to miss, we played. If two cancel and reschedule. We didn’t...
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I currently have 2 players and my son in college that can play during breaks, like the last 3 weeks. At times when he is home for one...
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In one group I still ran if a single person was absent, maybe it was even if two were absent. If we got to 3 we would look at...
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We try to avoid this by scheduling the next session immediately at the end of the current session, we all bust out our calendars, start...
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Your last sentence is the thing I wanted to highlight - I first saw Bob the World Builder mention this and I think it's important...
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In our games, when a player has to miss a game we often let them nominate another player to drive their character. In larger groups, we...
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Ideally, I would use the "fade to background" idea and have the rest of the players continue without the missing player's PC, with...
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