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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 3650835" data-attributes="member: 6777">Only, possibly, if your goal is hard-core immersion. In general, the fact is that we are human beings sitting around a table playing a game. The "meta" is the reality.I've played plenty of PvP, blood-opera style games where there was absolutely no secrecy, and it worked great. Heck, games like Burning Wheel and The Mountain Witch rely on there being no secrecy... and everyone still ends up killing each other in thoroughly enjoyable ways. <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=":)" />It's about trust. If you can't trust other players to play the game, I would seriously question why you're gaming with them at all.Um... why? What authority does some player (as that's what a DM is, a player at the table) have to keep a piece of paper I probably paid for with some stats for an imaginary character on it, much less have authority over my use of the concept of the character.No offense, Lanefan, but from my perspective, that is really, really messed up.True, but that's been the tenor of the thread so far. I didn't notice that you'd specified you were talking only about friendly departures.If your departure is amicable, certainly. That said, my departure from the group I mentioned above was amicable, but I also wasn't going to worry about staying on for multiple sessions just so the in-game fiction made perfect sense. I'd already spent at least a year being generally unhappy with their style of play. The GM came up with a plot device to explain my PC's absence in my final session, and we were good.Again, I think it is ludicrous to solve an out-of-game problem with in-game behavior. If I'm not having fun, or there's abusive/offensive behavior going on in the group, I am not going to waste my precious free time catering to their needs for a tidy in-game explanation as to why I won't be playing my PC with them anymore. I am going to pick up my stuff and leave, as should any reasonable human being.</blockquote>

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