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How Do You Retire A Character?

A player has a high level character in a game but fails to show up for a long time. How would you go about retiring that character from the game?

Character Retire You How

It varies based on the circumstances and the nature of the character. I've had characters simply die in combat, receive word of an emergency at home, suffer critical injuries that require specialized care, even turn traitor and betray the group.

How Do You Retire A Character? Reviews RPG & Card Board

This is a pretty open-ended question. As the Dungeon Master you can create all sorts of reasonable causes for a character to depart the group. It's far harder to close a campaign and retire all the characters, than to send one particular player's character on it's way. I've found that, just by using the player's own play style as a guide, you can create a quick scenario to see them off. Priest's become High Priests of their religion - no more adventuring. Paladin's become Lords, Wizards find a town that needs protecting/ has some magical font or source that needs dedicated study, Thieves form/take over a local Guild, etc. Lot's of ways to remove a character without rancor. Now, if the Dungeon Master and/or group never liked the player in the first place, it could get mean…

Character Retire You How

If a high level character is kept around the rest of the party will want to use that character as a slave to do their bidding so I try to get rid of the character as soon as possible through any sensible means necessary and casually tell the players to 'move on'.