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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 271540" data-attributes="member: 2209">You are in a bind. I feel it is a mistake to have other PCs play each others absent PCs or to have them risk death when not there. On the other hand you said up front this was one of the options with resulting risk of death and she agreed to that.I would suggest figuring out if there are options in the game for dealing with the situation. Is she now a wraith spawn? Coming back as undead and going on a quest to be restored to life is pretty epic and fits what happened.Another option to explain it away and bring her back is to have her corpse deform into a doppleganger corpse and now the PCs must find out where she really is. You will then have to come up with a backstory.What was the reactions of the other PCs? Did they use her as a shield? Are they trying to bring her back to life, making no effort and not caring, etc?What has been your policy on PC death so far, as stated and in practice?Unless you end midway in a dungeon, it should be relatively easy to come up with a reason for the roleplayer to separate from the party for games she is not there.If it is just hack and slash you can even introduce random chaos magic that cause rips in the space time continuum taking pcs and teleporting them to the party at a later date as if no time had passed for the PC. For her investigative side develop it as a metaphysic of the world such as the wild magic is in the realms, and come up with reasons behind it (gods wars, archmage rituals that destabilized time-space as a side effect, etc.)</blockquote>

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