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<blockquote data-quote="Timeboxer" data-source="post: 2197265" data-attributes="member: 21471">So last night I met my players fully expecting to run my usual Eberron game, which has been going surprisingly smoothly, before I unexpectedly was told that one of my players was missing the session because she was at work, and the other said she needed to do homework.&nbsp; Which left me with four out of six players.Now, usually the policy that we use when one person is missing is to Mark¹ them, but the consensus amongst my players is that if two people are missing, they would still like to game, but they'd like to do something else since having everyone present is vital to what's going on.&nbsp; I offered to change things up a bit and run some sort of spontaneous Ninja Burger or BESM game or some other easy one-shot, but apparently Eberron was in demand.So, they lugged all of the stuff into a room while I rushed back to my apartment and frantically dug through my copies of Dungeon Magazine.&nbsp; Eventually, I ended up printing off the pregenerated PCs from Keith Baker's website, and pulled Dungeon 115 off of my bookshelf so that I could retrofit Raiders of the Black Ice to take place in the Frostfell in Eberron with Tonnsberg as a House Tharashk enclave, and handed each of them the PCs that I felt would be most challenging for them to play, telling them that this was a &quot;roleplaying exercise.&quot;&nbsp; Because I knew time was limited, I started them off in medias res fighting a wolf and four snow goblins so that they could at least get some combat in.&nbsp; And much fun was had by all.So, what's my story.&nbsp; What do you guys do when your players unexpectedly don't show up to your session?¹ Mark (v. tr.): Roleplaying.&nbsp; To assume that a character is present even though his player is not there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Timeboxer, post: 2197265, member: 21471"] So last night I met my players fully expecting to run my usual Eberron game, which has been going surprisingly smoothly, before I unexpectedly was told that one of my players was missing the session because she was at work, and the other said she needed to do homework. Which left me with four out of six players. Now, usually the policy that we use when one person is missing is to Mark¹ them, but the consensus amongst my players is that if two people are missing, they would still like to game, but they'd like to do something else since having everyone present is vital to what's going on. I offered to change things up a bit and run some sort of spontaneous Ninja Burger or BESM game or some other easy one-shot, but apparently Eberron was in demand. So, they lugged all of the stuff into a room while I rushed back to my apartment and frantically dug through my copies of Dungeon Magazine. Eventually, I ended up printing off the pregenerated PCs from Keith Baker's website, and pulled Dungeon 115 off of my bookshelf so that I could retrofit [i]Raiders of the Black Ice[/i] to take place in the Frostfell in Eberron with Tonnsberg as a House Tharashk enclave, and handed each of them the PCs that I felt would be most challenging for them to play, telling them that this was a "roleplaying exercise." Because I knew time was limited, I started them off [i]in medias res[/i] fighting a wolf and four snow goblins so that they could at least get some combat in. And much fun was had by all. So, what's my story. What do you guys do when [i]your[/i] players unexpectedly don't show up to your session? ¹ Mark (v. tr.): [i]Roleplaying[/i]. To assume that a character is present even though his player is not there. [/QUOTE]

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