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7 months ago ::
Nov 10, 2012 - 8:56PM
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For how many different things, besides killing an opponent, do you award XP?
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7 months ago ::
Nov 10, 2012 - 9:14PM
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I don't award XP at all. We level up every few sessions, once it fits the story needs and everybody has a grip on their new abilities.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 10, 2012 - 9:20PM
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Nov 10, 2012
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I award a quarter of the normal XP for combat. I award a little bit more if they were really unlucky and rolled badly, to help make up for the stress off the encounter. I make up for this somewhat by awarding bonus XP if the players handle a role playing situation well, and make decisions and take actions that are consistant with their character's personality et c (but still keep it lower overall than the combat initially would have given, as I prefer a slower, more stable feel to my world- which I personally achieve by slowing the leveling progress). I would also award some bonus XP after a combat encounter if the players role-played well during it- and encouraged others to do the same. I also award for inginuity and problem solving, and more if they do it in a novel way that makes the story more interesting for everyone. As a one off, I awarded my players with some XP and gp for an activity they did OUT of the game. I'll just quote what I wrote to them. My main reason to do this was to get my players into the mindset of their characters more, and it worked very well as following this they really got into character and where much more consistant with how they played him or her. But I never told them the main reason, just what follows: Spoiler:
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7 months ago ::
Nov 10, 2012 - 10:37PM
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Besides killing enemies, I tend to reward XP to my players for advancing the plot in some fashion (be it by discovering the clues, by getting the enemy to do something they want rather than having to kill them, solving a mystery, etc.), for doing something particularly spectacular (as a friend of mine puts it when adjudicating XP gains in his WoD game, there's a range from "defeated a major villain" to "punched out Cthulu", and various things in between), for interesting roleplay, and in general for things that impress me.
In general, anything that I think went above and beyond the requirements for a scenario, be it a creative solution or even just giving me something that drops a new plot hook or twist on things tends to warrant at least a little extra experience. It can be something planned, like a skill challenge, or just an interesting thing that comes about through organic roleplay--just so long as I look at it and go "hey, that was kinda nifty!"
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7 months ago ::
Nov 11, 2012 - 12:15AM
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I generally level up the party once per big adventure. So a fight or two with some orcs on the road wouldn't count but killing that evil wizard who has been experimenting on homless people in the sewers does.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 11, 2012 - 1:49AM
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Aside from fights I award xp for bypassing fights, completing quests, and on occasion I award xp because they are close and it will be easier to level up between sessions than an hour into the next one or i get scared that the next fight is going to be too hard if i don't level them up before it and i don't want to subtract anything from the upcoming battle if they continue on their current path. I usually make this extra xp seem like it is from another source, but really it is just xp. I also award xp for skill challenges.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 11, 2012 - 4:20AM
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For how many different things, besides killing an opponent, do you award XP?
Quests and skill challenges, but I don't track it that closely. But I haven't given up on it either.
Killing monsters should be the least effective way of gaining XP. I see that now.
[N]o difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions. - L. Tolstoy
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7 months ago ::
Nov 11, 2012 - 6:29AM
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Nov 30, 2005
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I don't award XP at all. We level up every few sessions, once it fits the story needs and everybody has a grip on their new abilities.
This.
But you are supposed to award XP for overcoming a challenge. So any challenge, from convincing the king to lend you some horses to killing a dragon gives XP.
Anytime someone attempts anything, and is successful you award XP. Some things are so small a challenge that they no longer award XP, but they would have if the PCs were lower level. Climbing a cliff face is hard for level 1 PCs, but not level 6 ones who can fly.
I recomend awarding XP evenly to the group.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 11, 2012 - 9:48AM
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Aug 23, 2012
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The only way I "award" extra XP is in the form of putting more challenges into a session.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 11, 2012 - 10:59AM
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Interesting. So how would you quantify challenges in terms of XP. Say, 10 points for outwitting the town watch? 1,000 points for running a con on an adult red dragon? Could you give a list of your non-combat challenges and what they're worth in terms of XP?
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