I logged on and found my character (Bharl) was missing his flail. It was an Orog flail and was way cool. My character has recently undergone hard times and is back down to level 3 :oops: but was higher. Do DMs alter characters while the user is offline and did this happen to me or is it just a bug?

We didn't take it, and I've never heard of a bug of this kind before. Most likely you lost it and didn't realize it. Did the item have charges? Another possibility is that you used all of the charges, which make items disappear.

-Or- you went on a quest where you were disarmed and did not realize it. I've seen players forget weapons like that before as well.

I've seen some really odd bugs in my day, some of which un-equip items and magically transport them onto other PC's or people, though I am hoping whatever happened to you is one of the latter situations Howland and Beggar presented.

Thanks, just checking. I had it when I logged so was just curious, no biggie, I'll look around for a new weapon.