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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1976678" data-attributes="member: 1465">In general I'd say that letting the PC of a missing player die is a bad DM mistake. It's arbitrary most of the time, and largely unfair.However I see that in your case it was an accident, you had the PC stay in the encounter and wasn't expecting it to die. If you were expecting the player not to come back, you had all your rights to "use" his PC like it was an NPC, including killing him.Now that it happened that the players joined again, you have two options: agree with the player about making a new PC, or find an in-game reason why the PC is back.IMO you should just check with the player what he prefers. If he really wants the same character, I think you really should "revive" him. In some campaigns this could be bad, for example if usually resurrection isn't available. How much time has passed since the death? Was there an incontrovertible proof of the death? If the battle is just over, you could have the party open the belly of the monster and find the PC barely alive, only unconscious and in great need of healing. If the monster escaped the battle, you could imagine that it wasn't really a monster, but a shapechanged-something who exactly intended to kidnap the PC. Or the monster wasn't a regular Remorhaz, but a planar creature whose stomach is a portal to somewhere else (and that's why it is always hungry  <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" /> ).I can't believe you're really afraid of this!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> How can a player NOT play the best part of the game because he's afraid of dying? It's like someone who chooses not to play a sport match because he's afraid of losing...  <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" /> I doubt such player would start playing at all.</blockquote>

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