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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2778919" data-attributes="member: 29014">I'm glad that I am considered that way <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=":)" />  PbP is what got me most of these posts, so it's probably true.Hmm...well it's definitely a good question.  I've run at least parts of the first two games here face to face, and I have indeed had some drop-outs.  What I guess I would do is ask replacement players to be kind enough to take over the character for the player they are replacing, allowing a bit of mechanical retconning to suit the new player if she likes.  I've actually done that IRL in the Post-Arthurian game, and it has usually worked rather well** and PbP would make it actually easier by putting the whole game at the new player's fingertips.  Ideally, if we have players on whom I know I can count who are reliable to keep posting, like you as a LEW Judge, we wouldn't have to replace anyone.**(although the time when a Spanish guy took over for Naoise and betrayed the party was troubling, but that Spanish guy betrayed the party in any game he played, so I guess it wasn't a surprise--his most famous character was a fallen-paladin turned necromancer who fell for looting the corpse of the Zhentarim leader during a fight, leaving his adjacent barbarian ally to die to the blades of the others, and then he brought around a huge cart to store his loot everywhere, including one foray into the Abyss)</blockquote>

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