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<blockquote data-quote="Shallown" data-source="post: 459245" data-attributes="member: 1368"><p>I usually state up front in my games if you are not here I retain the right to run your Pc as an NPC. It is just a rule of my GMing. I have never had a problem with it. Sometimes I work the PC into the game sometimes the come down with "Marsh fever which leaves them useless to the party. Depends on were we are at in the game.</p><p></p><p>Last few sessions I have had someone missing. In one session the dwarf's player had to miss a night, since they had just faought some phase spiders and he was bitten I said the poison was adversly affecting him but I linked it to the fact he always drinks beer or ale, water does not pas his lips. I said the alcohol interacted and made him sicker and the parties cleric's spells didn't help (he also had heal atlike a 2 so I didn't worry about his character figuring it out). So at the end of the night he started getting better since he was to sick to drink.</p><p></p><p>Following week he couldn't make it again (through no fault of his) So as he got better he drank again and got sick again. </p><p></p><p>A few sessions later a seperate player was missing so the group engineered a reason for him to be absent, they sent him off to meet someone they were about to kidnap away from the some kidnappers. so this character waited in the woods (he was a ranger/fighter) They group took care of it so I didn't have to. Bunch of good players know how to keep GM happy. Of course turned out they didn't need him there and almost road out of town without him later but they probably would have done that anyway <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Later</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shallown, post: 459245, member: 1368"] I usually state up front in my games if you are not here I retain the right to run your Pc as an NPC. It is just a rule of my GMing. I have never had a problem with it. Sometimes I work the PC into the game sometimes the come down with "Marsh fever which leaves them useless to the party. Depends on were we are at in the game. Last few sessions I have had someone missing. In one session the dwarf's player had to miss a night, since they had just faought some phase spiders and he was bitten I said the poison was adversly affecting him but I linked it to the fact he always drinks beer or ale, water does not pas his lips. I said the alcohol interacted and made him sicker and the parties cleric's spells didn't help (he also had heal atlike a 2 so I didn't worry about his character figuring it out). So at the end of the night he started getting better since he was to sick to drink. Following week he couldn't make it again (through no fault of his) So as he got better he drank again and got sick again. A few sessions later a seperate player was missing so the group engineered a reason for him to be absent, they sent him off to meet someone they were about to kidnap away from the some kidnappers. so this character waited in the woods (he was a ranger/fighter) They group took care of it so I didn't have to. Bunch of good players know how to keep GM happy. Of course turned out they didn't need him there and almost road out of town without him later but they probably would have done that anyway ;) Later [/QUOTE]
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