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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wycen" data-source="post: 6060195" data-attributes="member: 13732">Currently it depends on the situation.  In the past I think they simply went "2 dimensional"; that is they were present but completely useless and invulnerable.In one group, if the player isn't there we kinda ignore them, except a couple times the players, children, were present but not playing so we kinda sort did stuff with them, but I don't think we ever had them fight.  I could be wrong.  We've certainly used the 2 dimensional term at least once.In my other group, if you don't show up and we were in the middle of something, your character develops a split personality.  Our wizard missed 3 sessions while we were out adventuring and so the DM provided us with a stand-in NPC wizard.  He gave us the Battle Mage stats from the npc gallery.  So suddenly the wizard became "BM" for short.  The player actually missed enough experience that the BM version is higher level than the original, though with less treasure and gear because we split the big treasure 3 ways instead of 4.  Similarly the cleric missed a session so we had a stand in Cleric of Besmara to represent him.Now, if they had missed sessions when we were in town and headed out, then they would not have been present during that portion and probably would magically appear when we all showed up again.  Or maybe not magically, but "arrives just in the nick of time".Edit:  Ok, now that I've come back later and reread the thread title, I guess I didn't quite address the question.  The excuse most recent in memory was something like gastrointestinal distress or tummy troubles.</blockquote>

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