It should be perfectly acceptable, yes, and in fact the logical argument is, "What do you care, you've dropped out...?" And I really cannot believe anyone would cry foul over something so minor!<br/><br/>But what should be and what is are quite often different things. As with the respecting of player offs... There should be no need to ever mention it, it should go without saying, but as I have frequently pointed out, it needs saying!<br/><br/>So with GMing of dropped characters.<br/><br/>It is simply that, given how very quick to report someone to staff some people can be, I consider the policy of "Better safe than sorry" is a wise one. Making it plane up front that this will happen is only going to put someone off joining if they were planning on doing so with the express intention of wrecking the game, and by the same token that is not the sort of player you want anyway. I'm not saying that anyone<strong><em>would</em></strong>deliberately join a game, get their characters involved in every scene, and then drop out just to crash the game, but I have known people do it unthinkingly!<br/><br/>If it is there in black and off-white pixels that such characters will be taken over, it just saves any possible argument!