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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 6756929" data-attributes="member: 6683613"><p>I run a "second string".  A group of backup characters whom the players play and advance in short, unconnected adventures on days when not everybody can make it to the session.  If a main character dies or retires, the player's second-stringer gets introduced to the party and joins the ongoing story.  Second-stringers start at 1st level, but earn double experience if they're lower than the party level.  Players can start a new second-stringer at any time for any reason, and can even rotate between second-string characters if they want, because the adventures are no more complicated than "Here's a town with a problem; who shows up to solve it?"</p></blockquote><p></p>