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<blockquote data-quote="Neurotic" data-source="post: 7945195" data-attributes="member: 24380"><p>In my experience, this is common on the boards. </p><p>I played absent player character a month ago until such time my character could be introduced.</p><p></p><p>Similarly, I took over a character some years ago (with DMs approval I tweaked it a bit to better fit my sense of the character), but the main story and race, class, stats remained the same. The changes were mostly feat or two and skills (and skill tricks)</p><p></p><p>In another game, there was a player that left an (N)PCs character in game at such place where he couldn't be written out. So another player [USER=87106]@MetaVoid[/USER] took over. Not sure if there were any changes, but he played until such time the game itself stalled.</p><p></p><p>Finally, there is (or maybe by now was [USER=11520]@Scotley[/USER]) a game where two forum members and real-life friends co-DMed an adventure with the idea that they share the burden, and if (when) one is busy the other can take over for the time being. It worked splendidly until one had to drop out permanently <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>In all cases: I would feel bad if the player of the character that was taken over returns. Because by that time, it would be MY character. Returning player could make a new one. And disappear again. But if I have to make new character and the one returning disappears, what then?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neurotic, post: 7945195, member: 24380"] In my experience, this is common on the boards. I played absent player character a month ago until such time my character could be introduced. Similarly, I took over a character some years ago (with DMs approval I tweaked it a bit to better fit my sense of the character), but the main story and race, class, stats remained the same. The changes were mostly feat or two and skills (and skill tricks) In another game, there was a player that left an (N)PCs character in game at such place where he couldn't be written out. So another player [USER=87106]@MetaVoid[/USER] took over. Not sure if there were any changes, but he played until such time the game itself stalled. Finally, there is (or maybe by now was [USER=11520]@Scotley[/USER]) a game where two forum members and real-life friends co-DMed an adventure with the idea that they share the burden, and if (when) one is busy the other can take over for the time being. It worked splendidly until one had to drop out permanently :) In all cases: I would feel bad if the player of the character that was taken over returns. Because by that time, it would be MY character. Returning player could make a new one. And disappear again. But if I have to make new character and the one returning disappears, what then? [/QUOTE]
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