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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2550382" data-attributes="member: 22622">Falling behind in XP is not going to put you on an uneven playing field for the game.  Most adventures are drawn up to allow for up to two level difference between characters.  There's no such thing as a "12th level campaign".  There is low, mid, high and epic levels.  Your analogy doesnt work because the game is created to allow for things such as level loss by ability or by death thus the higher you go the more frequent you will have players with different levels.  A player woudl have to miss a heck of a lot of sessions to drop below two levels and at that point is that player even worth playing with.  With players like that I drop their characters to npc mode and ...essently they play an npc when they come.  No real adventures or stories are drawn around their characters.  Chess doesnt work as an anology for this .  chess is a turn based game that requires only two players.  If someone's not there... well they are probably going to lose because the other person doesnt have an opponent.  Using your chess example again, as it can be as stratigic as d and d, someone else can't play your game because no oen else knows your exact strategy.  If you're not there for three turns yes you'll lose and it isn't really fair to the players actualy playing chess to play your turn for you putting the burden of you losing on them.</blockquote>