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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6762500" data-attributes="member: 29398">::shrug:: I guess I'm just used to sitting out for a while for any of a number of reasons: - my character failed a save vs. a disabling spell and is out for the duration - my character is dead (out for indeterminite time) or unconscious (out till someone cures me, 'cause I ain't curing myself!) - someone else is doing their thing e.g. scouting, and I'm not involved (to forestall all those who will dive in and say this should never happen, this is NOT a bug but rather an accepted part of the game) - I'm roleplaying my character.  To explain, if there's a lengthy in-character argument going on about something my character couldn't care less about (example: who gets a particular treasury item that my character can't even use) I'm as good as out other than to now and then ask - both in and out of character at the same time - "Are you guys done yet?"Note however that I mitigate all this considerably by usually playing two characters.And yes, if my characters are in one half of the party (figuring out how to fly an airship*) and the other half (trying to decipher writing on walls in a room at the other end of the dungeon complex*) is what's being looked after at the moment I'll pour myself a drink and pull out my phone or something; particularly if my characters in theory shouldn't know what the other half of the party is doing until and unless we meet up again.* - example taken from the game I play in, two sessions agoLanefan</blockquote>

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