You have the right instinct, narrative takes a backseat to player comfort. Don’t worry if it makes sense in-game, that’s not a real concern. Do whatever tying up of narrative threads you want, after you’re sure the player is comfortable out-of-game.

If the player wants, just let them start the next game with a new sheet. If they want to do a sendoff, do it at the top of the session. If they don’t want to acknowledge the old character, then they just evaporate and a new one is inserted.

Ultimately you’re playing with friends, and the reason everyone is there is to have fun. The group’s fun should take precedent over everything else.

Star wars 5e mod (i hope that’s the name) is dope as hell. They ran it for a season of Dimension 20, it looked really fun if you like the crunch.

Same. I’ve come to realize the more i plan, the less flexible i am and it leads to bad improv.

At this point i just think of a couple story beats or cool scenes i want to do, then we start rolling dice and see what happens.