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<blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 443631" data-attributes="member: 2">I usually have eight players, so it isn't unusual for one of them to miss a session. We usually have the DM run the character; if things get combat-riffic, I usually hand the character to another player to run them both during the combat. That way, I know that someone else is looking out for their best interests.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I have two players who have fairly new children at home. For one of them, I found an excuse in-game to take his PC out of the campaign, but gave him an excuse for popping back in at the spur of the moment whenever the player can make it. (he's dimensionally unbalanced at the moment due to some odd planeshifting the PCs did in game. This lets him shift back from the demiplane on those rare occasions that the player can actually come.)&nbsp; I usually find an excuse like this for those players who have to go on sabbatical.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Piratecat, post: 443631, member: 2"] I usually have eight players, so it isn't unusual for one of them to miss a session. We usually have the DM run the character; if things get combat-riffic, I usually hand the character to another player to run them both during the combat. That way, I know that someone else is looking out for their best interests. :) I have two players who have fairly new children at home. For one of them, I found an excuse in-game to take his PC out of the campaign, but gave him an excuse for popping back in at the spur of the moment whenever the player can make it. (he's dimensionally unbalanced at the moment due to some odd planeshifting the PCs did in game. This lets him shift back from the demiplane on those rare occasions that the player can actually come.) I usually find an excuse like this for those players who have to go on sabbatical. [/QUOTE]

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