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<blockquote data-quote="WhosAChaoticGoodBoy" data-source="post: 7158397" data-attributes="member: 6874314">In a one-shot I was running, a PC outright died (went unconscious, failed their death saves) and I determined there was no conceivable circumstance where he’d be revived in time for the player to continue playing that character. Shortly after the PC died, I told its player to build a new one and continued running the game with the remaining characters. When the player had finished making a new character, I on-the-fly introduced him into the story, putting the onus on him to describe who the PCs were encountering. A nice-to-have would’ve been to take the player aside during the next break to get some additional info on the character, but we were already towards the end of the session by the time he was introduced, so I figured there’d be minimal impact to me being ignorant of that character’s specific motivations/quirks. Some specifics for the curious: - The player died while the group was fighting some bandits; the bandits ended up routing the players and they rested before going back in- by the time the players re-engaged the group they’d retreated from, the new character was ready and I’d written him in as noticing the hullabaloo and joining the fray on the side of the PC’s. - The player himself is an experienced in 5e, and I trusted him to be able to quickly create a character independently of any assistance from me. I also trusted him to have motivations inline with what the party was doing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WhosAChaoticGoodBoy, post: 7158397, member: 6874314"] In a one-shot I was running, a PC outright died (went unconscious, failed their death saves) and I determined there was no conceivable circumstance where he’d be revived in time for the player to continue playing that character. Shortly after the PC died, I told its player to build a new one and continued running the game with the remaining characters. When the player had finished making a new character, I on-the-fly introduced him into the story, putting the onus on him to describe who the PCs were encountering. A nice-to-have would’ve been to take the player aside during the next break to get some additional info on the character, but we were already towards the end of the session by the time he was introduced, so I figured there’d be minimal impact to me being ignorant of that character’s specific motivations/quirks. Some specifics for the curious: - The player died while the group was fighting some bandits; the bandits ended up routing the players and they rested before going back in - by the time the players re-engaged the group they’d retreated from, the new character was ready and I’d written him in as noticing the hullabaloo and joining the fray on the side of the PC’s. - The player himself is an experienced in 5e, and I trusted him to be able to quickly create a character independently of any assistance from me. I also trusted him to have motivations inline with what the party was doing. [/QUOTE]

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