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Message: <blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 4768630" data-attributes="member: 46559">[sblock=disappearing players]I'm not your judge, but I've had players disappear from time to time.  At that point, my priority as DM is to make sure the adventure can carry on.  If the missing PC is essential to the party (e.g. party's only healer), I NPC them until a replacement can be found.  If they're not essential to the party I just disappear them as soon as it's convenient for me.  In this case, I might just say that jbean's character mysteriously vanished in the forest in a moment when everyone happened to be looking the other way.  I probably wouldn't do it in the middle of an encounter, but the beginning of an encounter I might consider it, if it didn't throw the balance of things off too much.  As DM, I consider that I have pretty free rein to do whatever I want to PCs abandoned by their players.  I usually try to avoid killing them, in case the player does come back, but short of that...  Waking up in Bacarte, naked, with a poorly bandaged head wound and no memory of how you got there, is not out of the question.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The point being, you've got pretty free rein IMO to deal with the situation however is convenient for you.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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