<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=77018.msg3418909#msg3418909">Quote from: Ixy on 05-08-2010, 18:52:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">As a player prone to major life crises, I can say that I don't mind being 'puppetted' by the DM if I lag on my posts.  If the DM thinks this is unreasonable, then I accept that I've lost a degree of participation and leave it to them to decide how to proceed.  Personally, I think it's safe for a DM to control a character until the end of an encounter and then democratically decide the character's fate (pit trap, planar shift, sudden illness, etc).<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I'm in much the same place.  If the game goes on for long enough, I will at some point disappear for a few days, possibly with no warning.  It's a hazard to which people are subject in different degrees.