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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 6700040" data-attributes="member: 9037">I am running a modified Hoard of the Dragon Queen game. I invited an old friend to join the game and he asked if his daughter and ex wife could join. I said yes even though I was a little worried about DMing for seven players. We played three sessions with the ex wife joining us for the third session. After that session which didn't go well because the party didn't work together as a team we had to take a break because I was moving when I started the game up again I helped everyone level as well as allowed some changes to characters. Several days before the session all three of these players dropped out without really giving me a good reason why. No one talked to me about any issues. So I was stuck with three PCs I needed to deal with in a way that made sense to the game. So I had a way for two of them to just disappear pulled away by another faction. I had the third character the ex wife PC murdered and her soul go into an amulet that one of the other characters found. I really liked what we had done creating a PC that dealt with elements and had visions and I didn't want to lose that so she is now in the stages of becoming a magical artifact. It will take time to develop right now the murder and sudden death has left her soul confused. Now understand she played this character one time her ex and I built the character.  Imagine my surprise when I see this on Facebook.:So Nahzinga was murdered instead of just vanishing into the night. To my non-gamer friends this means I pissed the GM off so badly we'll make sure you never play her again, ever. The truth: I only played once then due to every day mundane stuff like illness and moving and finances and all, we didn't play in the game for months. The GM asked if we were still interested in playing. I was bit overwhelmed because the group was so large, had lots of little packets of money to be earned by apparently double crossing people. And it was loud and set my anxiety off. My story has never wavered. As far as Nahzinga goes you can say she has been murdered (did that make you feel good? ?) But she was saved at the last minute by summoning a healer with a tiny amulet no one knew she had.Don't worry about her coming back because she thought the group fought with out discipline and with too much chaos.As for what you think of me personally I see that writing on the wall but im no longer afraid to jump off the wall with amulet.This is why I GAFIATED from gaming the first time. I don't need the thing that was helping me heal turn vicious on me. I hope the few people who know what they've done.:I have no clue what she is talking about other players being rewarded packets of money for betraying the party because that never happened. Nor did she ever tell me any issues that she had with the game. I can understand not wanting to play in such a big group and personally I am glad the group is not so big anymore. I thought everything was okay. They had found a new group to play with which I thought was great.Anyway I have never seen a reaction like this over something happening to a character you are no longer playing. Did I do something wrong in choosing the best way for my game as DM to continue the plot without these characters? Should I have cleared it with her first? How do other DMs handle leftover PCs when players leave?</blockquote>

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