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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reiella" data-source="post: 671207" data-attributes="member: 160">Personally I'd think the best option would be for something In Character to come up (hard at times on the DM I know) that causes them to be removed from the 'action'/scene/whatever.  No need to give them experience for that session (beyond it being easier if you award xp on an adventure level).  Of course if you're running by session it doesn't hurt the PC as much.  And if a level split occurs, use the FR XP guidelines, they do alot to help parties catch up (and also account slightly for the oddity of a level 1 putzoman getting xp for party kills out of range).Now if the player said 'it's ok for Soandso to play my character', I don't know.  It's slightly unfair for the other guy to be put in that position and have to multitask (although it really isn't as hard).   That and I'm unsure as to how it'd affect xp/gp.  For the most part, I don't think it would really matter (char gets their normal xp, and party handles loot anyway).Does remind me of one of my older games though, used to have about 3 people who would regularly show up, out of a cast of about 10 or so.  Net result was pretty much just that non-present players weren't present.  Of course, now that I think about it, I don't remember ever getting experience in that game either, was fun though <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=";)" />.</blockquote>

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