So here is my situation... I'm the DM and a Player in my campaign of 4 years has left and will not be playing with us anymore. (They have cutoff all communication with me or other party members so I can't ask them to do anything. Major IRL drama [don't ask, lol]). However, her character in DDB is still connected to my Campaign in DDB. I don't know whether she is going to delete or remove herself from the campaign in DDB so I may not have continued access to her character.
So, is there a quick way to duplicate her character sheet (without having to output her character sheet pdf and manually recreate it) and have it under my control in the campaign on DDB?
NOTE: I do have her Character Sheet from DDB in pdf form in case she deletes it or removes herself from the campaign in which case I will have to do it manually.
If there is another thread somewhere that already answers this please let me know. Thanks. :)
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Jordan Jones DM • Adventurer • Graphic Designer "Critter for Life"
I don't think there's a quicker way than recreating it. The actual owner of the character can make a copy, but I'm guessing you won't be able to get her to do that. The question is, do you need a full character sheet or just a reference? Could you use the PDF and treat it like a monster stat block that doesn't have an interactive character sheet?
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I'd just find an excuse to remove them from the story. They'll just be an NPC dead weight hanging about a player's neck. Find a convenient story point to have them removed. Have a bandit/monster attack during the night at the beginning of your next session, their character is not narrated, and at the end of the fight, describe to the party how they find their arrow ridden corpse.
In the unlikely event that the player does come back, just make a bit of a story of how they faked their own death to go do something.
You don't want to have a full PC floating around, it just bogs things down and distracts whoever is playing them from their own character. Kill them off (or find a convenient reason for them to quickly and cleanly break from the party, if possible) and move on.
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Just remake one with the same statistics, infos and backstory if you really need it.
It's happened to me before in some of my campaigns and as DM i find it better to move on from the player character as well so it may leave or disappear unexplicably, die in combat or just partways on good or not-so good terms. If the PC had gears or magic items the party needs, you can always arrange for it to left behind or found back somehow.
We had a player leave our game a while back. Early on the DM integrated a plot point with this character (a prophecy of sorts), but with the player gone, the DM removed the character, in game, and they are just gone (not dead). I assume, when the plot point comes up in the future, either the prophecy was wrong and it is someone else in the party, or the character will be "brought back" narratively to fulfill the prophecy.
Either way, you are the DM and you can do whatever you want with the character. I just don't see a reason why you want to keep this character in the game. Maybe you can explain. And you are the DM so if the character was important to your campaign, guess what, you can change it so it is irrelevant or applies to another character or whatever.
We had a player leave the campaign. We announced that his character went to the bathroom and never came back. Maybe you can do that. Any time you need to interact with the character, an NPC has to go into the bathroom to talk to them and comes back with the answer.
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So here is my situation... I'm the DM and a Player in my campaign of 4 years has left and will not be playing with us anymore. (They have cutoff all communication with me or other party members so I can't ask them to do anything. Major IRL drama [don't ask, lol]). However, her character in DDB is still connected to my Campaign in DDB. I don't know whether she is going to delete or remove herself from the campaign in DDB so I may not have continued access to her character. So, is there a quick way to duplicate her character sheet (without having to output her character sheet pdf and manually recreate it) and have it under my control in the campaign on DDB?
I assume you still need the character for some ongoing, major story element?
If you still need the character - export them to PDF - recreate them (in your account or even as a Custom NPC/Monster) - and that way you can continue to use them.
However, if you go this route, make sure you don't DMPC over everyone's glory.
As others suggested, find a way to write them out of the story is probably going to be the best route, and find another way to tie in their story by some other means (perhaps the party rescues their brother? And that way - their character and the brother have bad blood - the exited character departs - the brother decides to tag along as an NPC). That way if said person who exited, for whatever reason, comes back around, you can write their character back into the story.
I've had to shift my entire game, once when the pandemic hit. Had set up this fallen angel as the party's big bad - pandemic hits - that game goes on hold, my other three games continue via Discord + Beyond20 + D&D Beyond... and since I have a "living world" (as I call it) where events of one campaign impact all the others - I just shifted the entire story over to another party to go after the Fallen Angel.
So here is my situation... I'm the DM and a Player in my campaign of 4 years has left and will not be playing with us anymore. (They have cutoff all communication with me or other party members so I can't ask them to do anything. Major IRL drama [don't ask, lol]). However, her character in DDB is still connected to my Campaign in DDB. I don't know whether she is going to delete or remove herself from the campaign in DDB so I may not have continued access to her character.
So, is there a quick way to duplicate her character sheet (without having to output her character sheet pdf and manually recreate it) and have it under my control in the campaign on DDB?
NOTE: I do have her Character Sheet from DDB in pdf form in case she deletes it or removes herself from the campaign in which case I will have to do it manually.
If there is another thread somewhere that already answers this please let me know. Thanks. :)
Jordan Jones
DM • Adventurer • Graphic Designer
"Critter for Life"
I don't think there's a quicker way than recreating it. The actual owner of the character can make a copy, but I'm guessing you won't be able to get her to do that. The question is, do you need a full character sheet or just a reference? Could you use the PDF and treat it like a monster stat block that doesn't have an interactive character sheet?
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Honestly, it's probably better if you just write the character out of the game.
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Why do you want to have their character sheet?
I'd just find an excuse to remove them from the story. They'll just be an NPC dead weight hanging about a player's neck. Find a convenient story point to have them removed. Have a bandit/monster attack during the night at the beginning of your next session, their character is not narrated, and at the end of the fight, describe to the party how they find their arrow ridden corpse.
In the unlikely event that the player does come back, just make a bit of a story of how they faked their own death to go do something.
You don't want to have a full PC floating around, it just bogs things down and distracts whoever is playing them from their own character. Kill them off (or find a convenient reason for them to quickly and cleanly break from the party, if possible) and move on.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
Just remake one with the same statistics, infos and backstory if you really need it.
It's happened to me before in some of my campaigns and as DM i find it better to move on from the player character as well so it may leave or disappear unexplicably, die in combat or just partways on good or not-so good terms. If the PC had gears or magic items the party needs, you can always arrange for it to left behind or found back somehow.
We had a player leave our game a while back. Early on the DM integrated a plot point with this character (a prophecy of sorts), but with the player gone, the DM removed the character, in game, and they are just gone (not dead). I assume, when the plot point comes up in the future, either the prophecy was wrong and it is someone else in the party, or the character will be "brought back" narratively to fulfill the prophecy.
Either way, you are the DM and you can do whatever you want with the character. I just don't see a reason why you want to keep this character in the game. Maybe you can explain. And you are the DM so if the character was important to your campaign, guess what, you can change it so it is irrelevant or applies to another character or whatever.
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We had a player leave the campaign. We announced that his character went to the bathroom and never came back. Maybe you can do that. Any time you need to interact with the character, an NPC has to go into the bathroom to talk to them and comes back with the answer.
If you got a problem, yo, I'll solve it || Cast Fireball, that usually resolves it
I assume you still need the character for some ongoing, major story element?
If you still need the character - export them to PDF - recreate them (in your account or even as a Custom NPC/Monster) - and that way you can continue to use them.
However, if you go this route, make sure you don't DMPC over everyone's glory.
As others suggested, find a way to write them out of the story is probably going to be the best route, and find another way to tie in their story by some other means (perhaps the party rescues their brother? And that way - their character and the brother have bad blood - the exited character departs - the brother decides to tag along as an NPC). That way if said person who exited, for whatever reason, comes back around, you can write their character back into the story.
I've had to shift my entire game, once when the pandemic hit. Had set up this fallen angel as the party's big bad - pandemic hits - that game goes on hold, my other three games continue via Discord + Beyond20 + D&D Beyond... and since I have a "living world" (as I call it) where events of one campaign impact all the others - I just shifted the entire story over to another party to go after the Fallen Angel.
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