Coming up with contextual reasons on the fly for someone's character being absent when they don't attend a session works far, far better than this random table. Here it is anyway. It's a bit Dolmenwood-centric, too.
d6\d6 Reasons for a Character's Jarring Absence
1\1 They slipped through a mystic Fairy gateway.
1\2 Witches must've summoned them for a ritual.
1\3 Something turned them to stone! It'll pass.
1\4 They're hiding from the phantom taxman.
1\5 All this magic nonsense drove them off.
1\6 They're smoking pipeweed with an elf.
2\1 Shouldn't have eaten that mutton.
2\2 Shouldn't have eaten those mushrooms.
2\3 Shouldn't have eaten anything, apparently.
2\4 They were a figment of our imaginations.
2\5 They forgot about the Duke's summons.
2\6 They fell down a dire rabbit hole.
3\2 They lagged behind and lost us.
3\3 They scouted ahead and lost us.
3\4 They felt crowded and ran off.
3\5 That mushroom insulted them!
3\6 A wicked woodgrue led them astray.
4\1 Their boots needed mending.
4\2 They lost their nerve and fled.
4\3 Watchers stole their body for a spell.
4\4 Some illusory treasure distracted them.
4\5 They heard a strange song, then vanished.
4\6 Something took them in the dark.
5\1 One of their backpack straps snapped!
5\2 They faked their death as a joke.
5\3 They stopped to smell cursed roses.
5\4 They must've just missed home.
5\5 A wizard clearly did it. Damn wizards.
5\6 Can't adventure with a hangnail.
6\1 Was it influenza?
6\2 Or mumps, perhaps?
6\3 Maybe worms?
6\4 Could have been hay fever.
6\5 Hopefully not dysentery.
6\6 They must've angered the gnomes.
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| The Delayed Gnome, by Uzag |
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