Curse of the Pharoah

by JJ

Do all the characters need to be assigned to advance the game? I.e. what if only 12 people show, what happens to the 7 remaining characters?

My response:

If you don't have the full complement for a party, then all that happens is that the "missing" characters don't appear in the game.

All the games are written so that there's a core group that must be used (if they aren't present then some of the plots don't really work). Then there are optional characters. The individual game explains which characters are core and which are optional.

Sometimes one of the optional character does have an impact on the game - in which case there will be instructions explaining what to do. For example, if the character has a specific item, the instruction may say to give that item to another character.

I hope that helps - have a good party!