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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mattachine" data-source="post: 5842739" data-attributes="member: 6678226">Making a new PC isn't usually an option without breaking immersion. If a character dies in the middle of a fight in a dangerous area, that player won't come back into the game until the fight is over (maybe 30 min, maybe 60 min), and then after the party finds a suitable time/place to revive the PC. The remedy to this situation is for the game to have shorter fights, I would say.As to other options: playing assistant DM is usually more trouble than it's worth, especially since a player half-heartedly then fights the remaining PCs. Having two PCs is great, unless the party already has 5-6 characters, and only if the players want multiple characters.If the game is using SoDs, this situation (a player not being able to play) happen more often. Again, I'm not talking about a character dying and not coming back--that is rare after a certain level. I just mean when a PC is knocked out of a fight due to a single bad roll--that could be death, paralysis, petrification, and (perhaps worst) domination.Sure, it's a game, and sometimes people "lose". On the other hand, I'm not running a tournament in my dining room: these are my friends and we want to play.</blockquote>