You're committed to making it a musical episode now.

Agreed Trisha, this is gold. Bravo.

Even so, you still end up with the spotlight falling on a character who isn't going to be there next week. And you have to decide on "keep momentum" or stall until they are back. I tend to prefer momentum, so someone else has to be entrusted to play that character.

It's easier to create setups where a player can always be "back at base, doing something useful" when participation can't be guaranteed. Star Trek aces this; you can beam back and be replaced by an NPC to fill the skills gap. But not all campaigns can do this.

I guess after a while even paradise feels like Tuesday

We have been sold a lie by the minority of humanity that is not, that it is in our nature to be cruel to each other. But for most of us, it's not.

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ALL THE TABLETOP

London has had a good run, but perhaps it is time to accept the existence of the Nottingham Tabletop Powerhouse and cede our status.

We must transition to net-zero Space Marines, obviously.

Labour MPs have the power to stop this now by calling for a new leadership election. Now is the time for courage. This is not what the British people voted for when they voted Labour.

Love too

I'll be there. I tend to treat Dragonmeet as a "meet and greet" con

The Labour party is an existential threat to my family. There is little difference on that perspective between them and Reform.

I am married to a black woman and a migrant. Going to say that Labour currently stinks of racism, and is sliding towards authoritarianism. It's not a campaign, we just used our eyes and looked.

I left the Labour party. If you can't see how they keep echoing "Rivers of Blood", the rest of us can.