Episode 6 - How to Make Player Absences A Positive Experience In Your Ongoing RPG Campaign
Chris and Mat sit down to chat about how to keep your adventure going even if players can't make it to the gaming table. We will go over the strategies we use to make sure the expectation of attendance is clear to our players and we talk about the ways we cope with players missing games. Some of the strategies are easy to implement but others are more involved. They include:
1) Making the absent PC vanish temporarily.
2) Having the PC follow along, doing minimal actions.
3) Having someone else play this PC for the session.
4) Playing a filler episode or side quest.
5) Getting the player to help come up with a narrative reason for the character's absence.
6) Running a one-shot game using the same setting to help expand lore, NPC background, etc.
Role Play Chat is a YouTube channel where your hosts Chris and Mat sit down and chat about Tabletop Role-Playing Games (such as Dungeons and Dragons, Fates, Warhammer or Call of Cthulhu) and other RPG related topics.
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