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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 2401466" data-attributes="member: 15651">We had eight players in my group.  No shows were not uncommon, but not calling or e-mailing the day of the game was rare.  In one instance it was the person e-mailed me (since I was DMing and hosting) but sent the e-mail to my work account instead of the home account.  One other instance where we hadn't heard from the missing player, we finally heard from his wife about four hours after the game started; the player had been taken to the ER.  We were all pretty understanding in the end, but there were a lot of people feeling guilty for the things said about the player before we found out what had happened. We played on best we could around no-shows.  For games I DM I requested that everyone get me a copy of their character sheet so we could play on with the characters present (but shuffled to the background).</blockquote>