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If a character is dead while the party is still in the dungeon, I always let that player take over the henchmen. Barring that, they can stay engaged by being the mapper or the caller or both while everyone else focuses on running their own character.

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A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens and has been adapted several times in different forms since it was written during the Victorian era. It's about an old and bitter miser named Scrooge. It takes place on Christmas Eve. He refuses an invitation for Christmas from his Nephew because he suspects he's a homosexual, and turns away two people asking for money for the poor because Scrooge is a Libertarian, and begrudgingly gives his sole, overworked employee, Bob Crachitt, Christmas off with pay because of social stresses, but secretly hopes Bob's crippled son, Little Timmy, dies and ruins his Christmas.

That night he's visited by his dead Mising Partner, Jacob Marley. He's covered in the change he forged in life (The chains represent dickish behavior) and that he would be visited by three ghosts that night. As soon as Jacob leaves he immediately tries to dismiss it and remembers the good old days when they would work late and take turns fucking their shared prostitute whenever they needed a break.

He is visited by the Ghost of Christmas past, who shows him that he didn't used to be such a dick and was once young, handsome, and sociable. Then he his visited by the Ghost of Christmas present who shows him that his Nephew and his friends are having a gay old time (gay as in joyous, not as in blowjob circle) and the true horrors of stagnant wages coupled with ever increasing cost of living as he sees Bob Crachitt's shitty, Irish, life with his wife and their 17 children, plus crippled Little Timmy who also has like a chest thing or something cause he coughs a lot but damn is he ever optimistic. Also Bob's wife thinks Scrooge is a fucking dick. He is then visited by the Ghost of Christmas Future who reveals that one day Scrooge will.... DIE! Also no one will care because he was the Roger Ails of his time.

Scrooge then wakes up, looks out his window and sees an orphan boy selling Christmas hams and asks him what day it is. (cont'd)

(cont'd)

The Ham-slinging orphan looks up at him, rolls his eyes, and says "Why, it's Christmas, Sir!" And is about to flip him off until Scrooge says he's going to buy a ham, then the savvy little entrepreneur instead puts on the charm and closes the sale. Scrooge then has the ham delivered to Crachitt, visits his Nephew, tells him he accepts him and his lifestyle, confusing his straight nephew, and then has dinner with the Crachitts, having a jolly time then Little Timmy says "God bless us, everyone" and dies of dysentery. The end.

A lot of groups now won't use any of those things.