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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erdric Dragin" data-source="post: 8808712" data-attributes="member: 6785197">The story was completely arbitrary. Clearly a DM who hasn't done it long enough. I don't understand why the author didn't just NPC (as in, he controls the characters whom the players are missing from the table) or give the characters to the remaining players for them to run (basically some of them run 2 characters).Just fill in what happened to the missing players via text or something.Kinda dumb to just make the characters "vanish" and leave the adventure for the others to deal with.We agreed long ago due the same issues that the players will have their character's be controlled by either me or someone else (someone they delegate)and we fill them in after the session what they missed.Much simpler than what this guy did.Also, not sure why the players were thrilled to survive a fudged combat encounter. That actually takes away the fun, it's metagame, and it's demeaning. I did that one time to my players, they told me they'd quit if I ever fudged an encounter on them again. They felt like their success wasn't really earned, that I "gave it to them" which...was essentially true. It's like playing chess thinking you won only to learn your opponent let you win. Defeats the entire purpose.</blockquote>