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<blockquote data-quote="Ruined" data-source="post: 3197174" data-attributes="member: 113">This story comes up every year or so in my gaming circle. Many years back I had this happen to my long-term character in a WFRP campaign. I had to miss a session to go see my GF at the time out of state. The DM was a great friend, and ran some of my first games, so there was a lot of respect for his skills. I returned from my trip to learn that he killed my PC as a plot device during my absence. Needless to say, I was not happy and took a hiatus from the game.I acknowledged that the character was a serious non-combatant (priest of Shallya, the major healing deity), and he had the character jumped alone by a skilled assassin. Had I been there to play, it could easily have been fatal given the brutal nature of WFRP. Then again, I had a few Fate Points stored for that kind of situation. Overall, it just felt disrespectful, given the amount of time I had invested in the game, and the fact that I was only out for one session. Luckily I had a strong friendship with the guy and eventually returned to finish out the campaign. With that in mind, no, I won't kill PCs for players who are absent unless it's a TPK and they're trapped in some locale together. And really, if it's a TPK, that character is probably a secondary concern.&nbsp; If you drop out of my campaign though without plans of return, your PC is meat for the story.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruined, post: 3197174, member: 113"] This story comes up every year or so in my gaming circle. Many years back I had this happen to my long-term character in a WFRP campaign. I had to miss a session to go see my GF at the time out of state. The DM was a great friend, and ran some of my first games, so there was a lot of respect for his skills. I returned from my trip to learn that he killed my PC as a plot device during my absence. Needless to say, I was not happy and took a hiatus from the game. I acknowledged that the character was a serious non-combatant (priest of Shallya, the major healing deity), and he had the character jumped alone by a skilled assassin. Had I been there to play, it could easily have been fatal given the brutal nature of WFRP. Then again, I had a few Fate Points stored for that kind of situation. Overall, it just felt disrespectful, given the amount of time I had invested in the game, and the fact that I was only out for one session. Luckily I had a strong friendship with the guy and eventually returned to finish out the campaign. With that in mind, no, I won't kill PCs for players who are absent unless it's a TPK and they're trapped in some locale together. And really, if it's a TPK, that character is probably a secondary concern. If you drop out of my campaign though without plans of return, your PC is meat for the story. :p [/QUOTE]

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