I want to run amazing games for my players every week, even if they can't always commit to being there. Here are some techniques: from the dramatic, to the more practical which can rescue your game session, and make even an evening with players missing, something to remember.

🌐 Demiverse on DriveThruRPG:
https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/p...

📖 Mike Shea aka Sly Flourish aka The Lazy Dungeon Master
For anyone who doesn't know, I wasn't just taking random digs at some dungeon master for being lazy. All of Mike's resources for DnD and other TTRPG's are brilliant - he's one of my all time favourite TTRPG people and I've got a shelf full of his books!
https://slyflourish.com/index.html

Here's that intro monologue text. Feel free to use it at your tables - I'd love to hear how it goes for you!

"There's a moment... just an instant of magical light: a fluorescent greenish yellow-purple around the you as some of your party appear and others vanish, yet a second later you're all certain that's how things have always been. For those of you who remain; from that instant, it's as if those others never were - maybe you dreamed of them? Can everyone make me a Arcana check?"
(or similar roll depending on your game system)