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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9279269" data-attributes="member: 29398">Following that line of questioning very quickly leads to asking why we should honour the wishes of the dead as expressed in their wills.&nbsp; You sure that's the tack you want to take?Because even though I'm not there, my character is.&nbsp; If you don't want to have to pretend I'm still there, leave my character &quot;off-screen&quot;.Maybe that's where we differ: I assume that promise to be the unspoken default if nothing else is said.IME there's almost no such thing as permanently.&nbsp; The way I see it, anyone who has left the game should be reasonably able to expect that if they ever return to that same game their character(s) will be waiting for them, largely unchanged since last played.&nbsp; That's in part why I-as-DM tend to keep character sheets; so they too will be waiting if needed.And if I know for sure that someone really has left forever (usually meaning they've been kicked out), it's trivially easy to have their character(s) retire if such hasn't already been done, and simply become non-adventuring members of the setting's population or go off on (unplayed) adventures of their own that have nothing to do with anything the PCs are involved with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9279269, member: 29398"] Following that line of questioning very quickly leads to asking why we should honour the wishes of the dead as expressed in their wills. You sure that's the tack you want to take? Because even though I'm not there, my character is. If you don't want to have to pretend I'm still there, leave my character "off-screen". Maybe that's where we differ: I assume that promise to be the unspoken default if nothing else is said. IME there's almost no such thing as permanently. The way I see it, anyone who has left the game should be reasonably able to expect that if they ever return to that same game their character(s) will be waiting for them, largely unchanged since last played. That's in part why I-as-DM tend to keep character sheets; so they too will be waiting if needed. And if I know for sure that someone really has left forever (usually meaning they've been kicked out), it's trivially easy to have their character(s) retire if such hasn't already been done, and simply become non-adventuring members of the setting's population or go off on (unplayed) adventures of their own that have nothing to do with anything the PCs are involved with. [/QUOTE]

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