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Maybe I'm overthinking this. I wrote my snarky remark because these requests always get me in a dilemma of "am I being fair?" because I don't give in for everyone - often just because I don't have an admin console handy in the given time.

--Stefan

Hmmm. Emergency is emergency. You never know when you need it. And if you can't handle it, then ... bad luck, I guess.

I've thought about it, since it is your personal time you always have to invest. I think that's to much to ask for. May be you want implement something like the following:

At the start of the game everybody gets an emergency ticket. That is an option to skip out a single hostrun manually. That way you don't need to check yourself anymore, at least immediately. So the discussion is left for the players and may unfold afterwards - Was it ok, was it not? Will there be a penalty? Should the ticket be restored? There would be enough time then.

You might even think of an election for gamemaster, who might get the authorisation to handle such tasks for the game. That might be a player who is trusted by everybody or maybe even a neutral member which is then responsible for administrative tasks of a game.