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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9799543" data-attributes="member: 29398">Particularly for lower-level play, you're pretty close to the mark overall here.Our games tend to be fairly lethal at low levels to begin with - kind of like a very slow-motion DCC funnel - even before any CvC stuff might rear its head, and so players tend not to get attached to their characters until one or two have lasted long enough and built up enough resources that if-when they die they are likely to be revived.  Thus if CvC shenanigans do erupt and a character gets killed or run off or whatever it's not that big a deal (and on more than one occasion a character that was run off has followed the party in secret, and come bursting in to save the day when the remaining party - including the player's new character(s) -  found itself in over its head).Story still evolving in my game: in the second adventure in this campaign - i.e. late 2008 - a couple of PCs ran afoul of the rest of the party, and after a crazy and unforgettable session of shenanigans those two characters were left bound and gagged in an inn room while word was quietly passed to the local slavers regarding some free inventory to be found in said room.  One of these two was Turin Two-Axe, a Dwarf.Fast forward a few real-time years and a later version of the same party is going through a modified version of the A-Series Slavers modules.  Well, lo and behold, among the rescuees is good ol' Turin; who promptly retires from adventuring.Now, fast-forward about 15 real-time years to last weekend and another Dwarf character needs a hench.  Turin's player is still in the game and jokingly says "Hey, you're in the town where Turin was last seen - why not hire him?".  As I'll ignore metagame considerations when it comes to getting a PC into a party, Turin "just happened" to be there and was hired - meaning a PC given into slavery 17 years ago by one party has just re-entered play with another.Proof that getting run out of a party isn't always the end! <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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