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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Awakened" data-source="post: 1571568" data-attributes="member: 13299">A recent thread got me thinking about the problems of player absence and continuity issues. So, (*takes a big breath), I've created a new idea to power my upcoming campaign, one that has been in the works for a long while and is destined to be, hands down, the greatest roleplaying campaign of all time.   <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    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> And to the point. Ther characters belong to some sort of mercenary/pioneer/exploration squad in the Silver Marches, one that supports both humans AND monstrous characters, as long as they're not sociopaths, that is. Each session is one adventure, since a seperate story each game seems to work better. If a player cannot show up, though, their character is simply put on a different mission. That absent player can make up for lost xp by writing about what their character did while the others were off adventuring. The players that do go along get to choose an NPC from the basecamp of the exploration team to serve as a travelling companion. They get to control this NPC and roleplay with them, unless they want to leave it up to me, the DM. Here's where the kicker comes in- everybody has a character idea sometime along the line that they don't use. The character may be too odd or complicated to the player for long term play, but that player gets to use his kewl one-shotter for that adventure if he wants. This system allows for a realistic explanation for in-game PC absentees, keeps PCs from worrying about killing absent players' characters, and gives the PCs an original opportunity to develop background characters as well as their main one, if they so choose. On top of it all though, I get a huge pool of recurring NPCs to roleplay through back at the basecamp. I'm not sure if I'm going to use this idea, but I'd like to know what you EnWorlders think about it- any perceived problems? Any additional ideas? Thanks,Awakened</blockquote>

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