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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chupacabra" data-source="post: 1569303" data-attributes="member: 17708">In our current campaign, the DM keeps all of the player sheets after each session.  If anyone is missing from the next session, he will hand that sheet to another player to run for the day.  We all use the same standardized character sheet for ease of reference, that way we all know where stuff like AC, saves, feats, etc. are located on the sheets (2 pages front and back).  The GM is pretty good at giving the missing PC sheet to someone who already isn't already running that type of character.  For example, if my character (Fighter/Rogue) needs to be run by someone else b/c I'm out for the day, he will give it to one of our spellcasters rather than our monk or fighter, just so they can experience a little bit of "how the other half lives".  Also, he is fairly strict at making sure that the character is played in a manner consistent with how the missing player ran it.  No running the wizard up to the front line of combat if he would never, ever do that if his "owner" player never played him like that.  (Unfortunately for me, since I play my Ftr/Rog as a kind of bloodthirsty hothead, that allows the folks who run him in my absence to throw him into all sorts of trouble -- alot of times I'll email the gang after I missed a session asking "How did my character do?" only to get something cryptically scary like "Well, he'll be poisoned at the start of the next session" or "He's lost alot of blood since you saw him last....)</blockquote>

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