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<blockquote data-quote="Reprisal" data-source="post: 207358" data-attributes="member: 1161">Don't treat them the same as regular players...Though I don't believe you should do anything rash like kick them out, I would simply think of them as not being part of the group for the purposes of running the campaign.&nbsp; As you said, these people are very much &quot;guest players.&quot;Things like this annoy me to no end, but not so much that I'm not willing to DM for them... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />Personally, you should meet with these people and tell them that it seems that they're not attending enough sessions to be part of the primary adventuring group and that necessity will most likely dictate that the stragglers be cut loose from the party.&nbsp; As such, they'll probably have to play some sort of pre-generated character with certain guidelines taken down for the player.&quot;Can't make many sessions?&nbsp; All right, well, you'll have to give up playing a single character for my sake.&nbsp; You've no problems with that?&nbsp; Great! Now, when I know you'll be showing up, should I prepare a certain kind of character for you?&quot;Of course, this all hinges upon your ability to know whether or not such-and-such a player can attend the session...&nbsp; I really have no useful advice for you otherwise, hehe.So basically, make sure your &quot;spontaneous&quot; (what a nice euphemism! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> ) players are never accorded primary player-characters, and make sure that none of your adventures hinge upon one of these chronically absent players.&nbsp; It sucks!&nbsp; I know that, it's happened to me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reprisal, post: 207358, member: 1161"] [b]Don't treat them the same as regular players...[/b] Though I don't believe you should do anything rash like kick them out, I would simply think of them as not being part of the group for the purposes of running the campaign. As you said, these people are very much "guest players." Things like this annoy me to no end, but not so much that I'm not willing to DM for them... :cool: Personally, you should meet with these people and tell them that it seems that they're not attending enough sessions to be part of the primary adventuring group and that necessity will most likely dictate that the stragglers be cut loose from the party. As such, they'll probably have to play some sort of pre-generated character with certain guidelines taken down for the player. "Can't make many sessions? All right, well, you'll have to give up playing a single character for my sake. You've no problems with that? Great! Now, when I know you'll be showing up, should I prepare a certain kind of character for you?" Of course, this all hinges upon your ability to know whether or not such-and-such a player can attend the session... I really have no useful advice for you otherwise, hehe. So basically, make sure your "spontaneous" (what a nice euphemism! :rolleyes: ) players are never accorded primary player-characters, and [i]make sure[/i] that none of your adventures hinge upon one of these chronically absent players. It sucks! I know that, it's happened to me. :( [/QUOTE]

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