Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lordnightshade" data-source="post: 386205" data-attributes="member: 499">Once there was a player in one of my games who was often absent from the game. I never like making another player, play the absent players character, so I would always try to come up with reasons that the character had to temporarily bow out. This was never really that hard to do because most of my players have excellent attendance. However, this particular game was at a bad time for the player in question so he could only make it about half the time. So I worked out with him a creative way to deal with this. Every time he missed a game his character would mysteriously disappear. Turns out he was being summoned by a wizard far away who he had made a dire agreement with, part of that agreement was that the wizard could summon him whenever he wanted the services of a high level rogue.  It worked into the story well as for a while the party thought he was sneaking off to betray them whenever he disappeared.</blockquote>