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DM's: what do you do with players who miss time?
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<blockquote data-quote="GameOgre" data-source="post: 6756782" data-attributes="member: 57914"><p>I flipped a mental coin and the Grognard side of me one today.</p><p></p><p></p><p> I don't understand the question. What do you do? If the guy doesn't show up?</p><p></p><p> If he doesn't show up he doesn't play, if he doesn't play then he totally misses out on the fun he would have had at the table and his character totally misses out on whatever he missed out on.</p><p></p><p> What other option is there? Hold his hand like a baby and play the game for him? What kind of mamby pamby attitude is that? </p><p></p><p> If you are going to play the game for them, why are you even playing at all? Here ya go! You are now 30th level Demi-god made of fruit and you won the dang game. That's it,we are done, pop a beer and rejoice.</p><p></p><p> Why is it that now days folk are punished if they are not given stuff they didn't earn? Life happens and sometimes games are missed. Walk it off man, this to will pass one day.</p><p></p><p>Another shocker, not everyone has to be the same level in 5E. The game works just fine with a level 3 fighter a level 5 cleric a level 7 wizard and a level 4 rogue. </p><p></p><p>Can you run it with your handy dandy 5E Ruler of balanced encounter building and have it be totally balanced and fair? Dude, do the best thing for everyone and pull that ruler out of its nasty ol storage place and throw it away. Your game will be better for it anyway.</p><p></p><p>As far as how do you handle the aspect in game of a character suddenly not being there?</p><p></p><p>We handle it the same way we handle dungeons of monsters, castles filled with badguys, dragons lairs, giant forts and all the rest not having one single bathroom or not being smeared in feces. </p><p></p><p>We ignore it.</p><p></p><p>We ignore it the same way we ignore midgets with giant strength or fireballs so badarse they burn to a crisp nine bugbears but the ever so lucky rogue in the middle of them was totally unaffected( even down to his fancy greasy mullet unsinged).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GameOgre, post: 6756782, member: 57914"] I flipped a mental coin and the Grognard side of me one today. I don't understand the question. What do you do? If the guy doesn't show up? If he doesn't show up he doesn't play, if he doesn't play then he totally misses out on the fun he would have had at the table and his character totally misses out on whatever he missed out on. What other option is there? Hold his hand like a baby and play the game for him? What kind of mamby pamby attitude is that? If you are going to play the game for them, why are you even playing at all? Here ya go! You are now 30th level Demi-god made of fruit and you won the dang game. That's it,we are done, pop a beer and rejoice. Why is it that now days folk are punished if they are not given stuff they didn't earn? Life happens and sometimes games are missed. Walk it off man, this to will pass one day. Another shocker, not everyone has to be the same level in 5E. The game works just fine with a level 3 fighter a level 5 cleric a level 7 wizard and a level 4 rogue. Can you run it with your handy dandy 5E Ruler of balanced encounter building and have it be totally balanced and fair? Dude, do the best thing for everyone and pull that ruler out of its nasty ol storage place and throw it away. Your game will be better for it anyway. As far as how do you handle the aspect in game of a character suddenly not being there? We handle it the same way we handle dungeons of monsters, castles filled with badguys, dragons lairs, giant forts and all the rest not having one single bathroom or not being smeared in feces. We ignore it. We ignore it the same way we ignore midgets with giant strength or fireballs so badarse they burn to a crisp nine bugbears but the ever so lucky rogue in the middle of them was totally unaffected( even down to his fancy greasy mullet unsinged). [/QUOTE]
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