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<blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 6060256" data-attributes="member: 2093">I use a combination of different things that have been mentioned above; best is if I can write the PC out for the missing period of time; often this means that if the adventurers are in town, or in the woods, or anywhere the PC could easily depart from, then we say &quot;oh, Jasper decided to spend the day being diplomatic with the dopplegangers while the rest of you continued on&quot;, and when Jasper's player gets back, he &quot;arrives in the nick of time&quot; to be involved with the next scenario. Other times, if I have the PC stats, the party runs the PC as an NPC. PC death is fairly rare in my world, so I've never had a character die when the owner wasn't present; if it happened, I'd let the dice fall where they would. Generally, we'll discuss how the PC would act as a group, if there's a question about &quot;behaving in character&quot;.And lastly, if there's no good story-reason for the PC to be gone, but I don't have the PC's stats and can't guesstimate him, then he goes &quot;semi-invisible&quot; and sort of tags along without contributing until the player rejoins us.I actually HAVE done major story things to account for disappearances, but almost always it was either a player who left, or a character that the player got bored with and &quot;retired&quot; into NPC status.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gilladian, post: 6060256, member: 2093"] I use a combination of different things that have been mentioned above; best is if I can write the PC out for the missing period of time; often this means that if the adventurers are in town, or in the woods, or anywhere the PC could easily depart from, then we say "oh, Jasper decided to spend the day being diplomatic with the dopplegangers while the rest of you continued on", and when Jasper's player gets back, he "arrives in the nick of time" to be involved with the next scenario. Other times, if I have the PC stats, the party runs the PC as an NPC. PC death is fairly rare in my world, so I've never had a character die when the owner wasn't present; if it happened, I'd let the dice fall where they would. Generally, we'll discuss how the PC would act as a group, if there's a question about "behaving in character". And lastly, if there's no good story-reason for the PC to be gone, but I don't have the PC's stats and can't guesstimate him, then he goes "semi-invisible" and sort of tags along without contributing until the player rejoins us. I actually HAVE done major story things to account for disappearances, but almost always it was either a player who left, or a character that the player got bored with and "retired" into NPC status. [/QUOTE]

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