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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8957853" data-attributes="member: 29398">Which is part of why I discourage players from growing attached to their characters.  Yes, in the moment you and the character are ideally one and the same, but at the same time, maintain the bigger-picture ability to make a clean break and move on if-when that character for whatever reason can no longer be played.Except given that the story of the campaign as a whole is and must be* bigger than the story of any individual character** I put that down as a player issue.* - unless the group is playing out a campaign that is the story of one character specifically, with all the other PCs there only as support; which while certainly a valid way to play is also a serious outlier.** - exception: DM+single-player games where there's only one PC.Be emotional as a character; be dispassionate as a player.</blockquote>