Health & Welfare Check Forum?
over the years, my most successful games, we lost some great players to RL death..one. told us of Diabetes..and things were going well..he vanished a month later... another guy told us( he was from England) that he had Tumor problems in his brain, he was the only player i ever skyped with,. because he wanted to ask questions about the game... he vaniched..his Sister sent me an Email because i was on his gamers lies ( whicj included the MAyor of his town and some other offical!)
others in the GAme have thier share of RL suckiness , but say 'hey..i'm done for a bit"..so the character moves to the back round..
if i do not hear from a player in a week, i send a PM... if they ghost for a Mouth. they are out of the story line( As Tibiotarus said )..and then they'll get moved to NPC.. if they don't not pop up in a RL year, they get cut.
Bottom line, nasty, sudden stuff happen and there isn't a thing the player can do..house burns down, floods ect ect..you have to get on you r phone, or hit the library if you lost you computer..and? lets face it...RP Gamign falls way down the list when stuff like that happens.
i also cut a couple player s after being gone a year..who came back late last year!..stuff hapened, and now they are back to activity!
the best i can say.. Good Luck to all of us, to stay away from Evil forces in RL!