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<blockquote data-quote="uzirath" data-source="post: 7947338" data-attributes="member: 8495"><p>Way back in high school, when I more frequently grappled with this sort of thing (single PCs running off to do things that the rest of the group wasn't invested in), I would ask the player to make a single die roll that represented their level of success or failure. The roll would be based on pertinent skills modified by my sense of the task's difficulty. Then I had their character exit the main story for an appropriate amount of time. When they got back, they could narrate the results of their expedition as they saw fit. This put the work on the shoulders of the player who wanted their character to wander off instead requiring the rest of the group to watch them roll endless hunting checks or whatever. Of course, if they rolled badly enough, they would not come back at all—whether this meant that they died or needed to be rescued depended on the nature of the task and whether the rest of the group was loyal enough to care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="uzirath, post: 7947338, member: 8495"] Way back in high school, when I more frequently grappled with this sort of thing (single PCs running off to do things that the rest of the group wasn't invested in), I would ask the player to make a single die roll that represented their level of success or failure. The roll would be based on pertinent skills modified by my sense of the task's difficulty. Then I had their character exit the main story for an appropriate amount of time. When they got back, they could narrate the results of their expedition as they saw fit. This put the work on the shoulders of the player who wanted their character to wander off instead requiring the rest of the group to watch them roll endless hunting checks or whatever. Of course, if they rolled badly enough, they would not come back at all—whether this meant that they died or needed to be rescued depended on the nature of the task and whether the rest of the group was loyal enough to care. [/QUOTE]
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