If a player needs to leave mid-session, then ideally before they leave, ask them to pass their character sheet over to you, or another player. If you're using Campaigns on D&D Beyond (and ideally you should, because it's awesome) then someone else can continue to run the session.
People have complicated lives, and emergencies, and sometimes they might need to leave. That's ok - although I think that it's important that people commit to playing D&D, it's also important to remember that it's not their whole life.
I would continue to run the session, with someone else running the character in combat. Ideally, if you are in a position for them to have that character say "I'll guard the wagon while you go do the stuff" then do that and take them out of the game for a bit. We used to regularly have characters "guarding the wagon" when they couldn't make sessions. It's not a big deal.
If the player left because they had something else that they wanted to do, like go to the cinema, then for me that would be a strong conversation with them in the week to say that they need to commit to the game to be a player, but it doesn't sound like that's what happened here.
All the above. But also a note that if your game relies so heavily on a single character that the game dissolves without them, you need to reconsider some things in general, like giving the others more screen time. Although honestly in this case it sounds more like everyone just felt like calling it a night.
Depends on how much longer the rest were going to play. If it’s close to the end, just wrap up. If not, we just move on without them. As in, their character just kind of stops being there. But in general, we’re the kind of group that doesn’t worry about making a big thing for the character when a player is out.
We have a remote game and one of my players has mental health issues that mean they have to drop out mid session sometimes just for 20-30 mins, sometimes the whole session, because they just don’t want to interact with people in that moment. They have created a copy of the character sheet and un assigned it in our campaign so if that happens they just ping me, I let the group know and one of them assigns the sheet and jaegurs them.
It either so we’ll all the players have done this, created a copy and left it unassigned.
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Earlier while I was playing with my friends, one of them need to go home, and the entire session dissolved. Is this normal? is not, HELP!
Hi,
First up, calm down - it's just D&D :)
If a player needs to leave mid-session, then ideally before they leave, ask them to pass their character sheet over to you, or another player. If you're using Campaigns on D&D Beyond (and ideally you should, because it's awesome) then someone else can continue to run the session.
People have complicated lives, and emergencies, and sometimes they might need to leave. That's ok - although I think that it's important that people commit to playing D&D, it's also important to remember that it's not their whole life.
I would continue to run the session, with someone else running the character in combat. Ideally, if you are in a position for them to have that character say "I'll guard the wagon while you go do the stuff" then do that and take them out of the game for a bit. We used to regularly have characters "guarding the wagon" when they couldn't make sessions. It's not a big deal.
If the player left because they had something else that they wanted to do, like go to the cinema, then for me that would be a strong conversation with them in the week to say that they need to commit to the game to be a player, but it doesn't sound like that's what happened here.
All the above. But also a note that if your game relies so heavily on a single character that the game dissolves without them, you need to reconsider some things in general, like giving the others more screen time. Although honestly in this case it sounds more like everyone just felt like calling it a night.
Depends on how much longer the rest were going to play. If it’s close to the end, just wrap up. If not, we just move on without them. As in, their character just kind of stops being there. But in general, we’re the kind of group that doesn’t worry about making a big thing for the character when a player is out.
We have a remote game and one of my players has mental health issues that mean they have to drop out mid session sometimes just for 20-30 mins, sometimes the whole session, because they just don’t want to interact with people in that moment. They have created a copy of the character sheet and un assigned it in our campaign so if that happens they just ping me, I let the group know and one of them assigns the sheet and jaegurs them.
It either so we’ll all the players have done this, created a copy and left it unassigned.