*offers herself to Miss Reia as a nice comfy warm blanket*<br/><br/>Yeah, I was joking too. Sorry. And I know what you mean about people doing that.<br/><br/>I have actually made a point, when setting up some games, of specifying that any players who drop out, their characters automatically become NPCs under the GMs control. But of course, not everyone is happy with that situation.<br/><br/>Actually, it's an interesting point. Intellectual copyright law aside, about the only way someone could actually stop a GM from NPCing their character(s) would be to delete all that character's posts in the thread, which would be very childish.