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<blockquote data-quote="uzirath" data-source="post: 7872901" data-attributes="member: 8495"><p>Until recently I was always put off by the idea of PCs vanishing in the midst of the game story. I've always taken the in-game reality quite seriously. I was grudgingly willing to give it a shot with one of my current groups. Turns out that it works better than I expected and doesn't knock me out of the fiction the way I thought it would. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If we assume the characters are there at all, then we assume that they come out ok if the party comes out ok. Maybe they took some knocks, but they get patched up. Basically, the assumption is that the camera ignores them. They've become extras in the background making it look like more is happening. They don't get the same glory but they don't risk permanent injury or setbacks.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, that can be tough. But tough can be fun for the remaining players. They need to work with their own character resources and not depend on Tanky to plow through the opposition. As a player, I kinda love it when this happens.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, even if you have PCs actually vanish, poof, into thin air, it's not really harder to explain than many of the other elements of a high-octane fantasy game. Maybe it's the thing that links the party together: they're all Plane Touched or Dimensionally Diffuse or whatnot. Every once in a while they slip between the threads of reality and vanish for a time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="uzirath, post: 7872901, member: 8495"] Until recently I was always put off by the idea of PCs vanishing in the midst of the game story. I've always taken the in-game reality quite seriously. I was grudgingly willing to give it a shot with one of my current groups. Turns out that it works better than I expected and doesn't knock me out of the fiction the way I thought it would. If we assume the characters are there at all, then we assume that they come out ok if the party comes out ok. Maybe they took some knocks, but they get patched up. Basically, the assumption is that the camera ignores them. They've become extras in the background making it look like more is happening. They don't get the same glory but they don't risk permanent injury or setbacks. Yeah, that can be tough. But tough can be fun for the remaining players. They need to work with their own character resources and not depend on Tanky to plow through the opposition. As a player, I kinda love it when this happens. Honestly, even if you have PCs actually vanish, poof, into thin air, it's not really harder to explain than many of the other elements of a high-octane fantasy game. Maybe it's the thing that links the party together: they're all Plane Touched or Dimensionally Diffuse or whatnot. Every once in a while they slip between the threads of reality and vanish for a time. [/QUOTE]
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