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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7075938" data-attributes="member: 29398">For the real-world players it's a group game.For the PCs it's whatever they decide in-character that it's gonna be.  If a PC retires it's entirely reasonable the party might look for a replacement...and whoever just retired their PC is now short a character to play...seems like a logical fit to me. (and if the player wants to play something quite different than what was just retired that's fine too; the party might need to recruit an NPC to fill the gap left by the retiree while also taking in whatever new PC the player rolls up).In other words, the fact that the real-world players are here as a group every Sunday night has no bearing on whether their game-world characters always have to remain as a group; and while it certainly helps if a majority of them stay together there's no expectation whatsoever that they all have to.  As [MENTION=23751]Maxperson[/MENTION] says, it's not only possible to role-play yourself out of a party, it's sometimes desireable in order to maintain the fiction of your character doing what it would logically do in order to fulfill its own goals.An example: I play a long-running character from a Roman-equivalent society.  Her personal goal* has always been to eventually get onto the Senate after her adventuring career is done and then at some point after that make a play for Empress.  Do I-as-player expect all the other players/PCs to help me with this?  Of course not; and though one or two have indicated they will I've no right to expect the rest to give a flying fig.  If it ever gets to the point of her leaving the party and doing this I'd retire her from adventuring and at some point the DM and I could sort her out over an out-of-session beer in the pub.  Meanwhile I'd play a different character in the ongoing party.* - a goal that's getting further and further away the more she adventures, for a host of reasons not least of which is that she's gone from looking like a purebred Roman to looking like a member of an enemy culture (still human) thanks to side effects from a reincarnation...Lanefan</blockquote>

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