Ha ha.
Pretty much the same here except for the bolded bit: here if a player's not present the PC carries on just like it would have were the player present. For this reason (and to get around occasional player forgetfulness) character sheets stay with the DM between sessions.
We played a 2E pickup game years ago on a Sunday afternoon outside of our normal campaign. About 4 of us, and the DM had us roll up 5th or 6th level PCs, and he rolled each of us a few random magical items. I rolled up a Transmuter. I watched the DM roll my items and I got a wand of polymorphing fully charged. An hour into the game the DM turns to me and says I knew I should've never given you that damn thing, Needless to say I threatened everyone in the party with it who wouldn't do my bidding. I even made an example out of the fighter and polymorphed him about 7 or 8 times throughout the game. Somehow he failed every saving throw vs RSW but made his systems shock check every time. At first he was kind of mad but halfway through we were all dying laughing at the monstrous behemoth I turned him into.Pretty much the same here except for the bolded bit: here if a player's not present the PC carries on just like it would have were the player present. For this reason (and to get around occasional player forgetfulness) character sheets stay with the DM between sessions.
And yes, some of the PvP stuff that's gone on around here has been pure gonzo hilarity:
Party's in town and has a falling-out. Two PCs leave and find a different inn. A third PC follows them, finds out what room they're in, casts Sleep on them, then sneaks into their room and carefully arranges them into a "compromising position" on the bed without waking them. He then leaves the room door wide open and tells anyone he can find, including the rest of the PCs, about "what's going on upstairs"...
One of the sleeping PCs then woke up, shrieked in horror on realizing the "position" he's in and with who, and - forgetting he was on the second floor of the inn - ran screaming out the window, much to the concern of bypassers in the street below.
This took quite some time to play out at the table because everyone was laughing so hard.
Yeah, I think I and some others got that covered a bit over 5 years ago...but it does bear repeating every now and then.
