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In-game rewards for game-related work?
The other GM in my group and I are both big fans of giving XP rewards for things done out of the game. Ex: We have an artist who will draw and design all sorts of stuff to "fluff out" our campaign.
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Pitfalls of using the optional 'XP for Gold' rule in a Basic D&D Retro Clone game?
Basic Fantasy (a Baisc D&D Retro Clone) has the "XP for Gold" optional rule: 1GP of coin or treasure returned to a "safe place" rewards the party with 1 XP. This is in addition to normal XP ...
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How much experience should a vampire of a given age have?
I'm creating a setting for a Kindred of the East chronicle and I'm not sure how many discipline points or virtues characters should have.
There was an old trick in V:tM that consisted in giving an ...
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Awarding XP for combat encounters in Dnd 4e
I am a very inexperienced DM. I have here what must be an obvious question, but I can't seem to find any solid clarification.
How is XP rewarded after a combat encounter? Is the total monsters' XP ...
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Reward distribution and story continuity with rotating players/GMs
There are some people who like to GM, and maybe even like it more than role playing themselves. If you have one of those rare specimen in your group consider yourself lucky. Others are not averse to ...
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Does taking levels in a prestige class cause XP Penalty?
In D&D 3.5, does taking levels in a prestige class cause the XP penalty like multiclassing does? Please provide the source of the answer so I can show it to my players.
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Are my vassals ripping me off?
Consider the following points:
In ACKS, a character can only directly manage one domain, and the maximum size of a domain is fixed at 16 6-mile hexes. In order to control more land, a character has ...
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Savage Worlds: Do extras gain experience, take hindrances and edges?
I've just picked up PEG Inc's edition of "Savage Worlds," and the way experience works for me is unclear. Each player controls a Wild Card character and collaborates on controlling a pool of Extra ...
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Average experience per encounter for a two person party?
I have been playing Dungeons and Dragons for a while now as a player. I've recently started up a new game that I am DMing. I am going to run the Kobold Hall adventure for starters. The problem I have ...
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What's the nicest way to handle lycanthropy when it comes to XP?
I've been running some published adventures in D&D 3.5 and two of the PCs in the party have contracted lycanthropy (they're now were-rats). They've had their first night of the full-moon. While ...
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How many XP points should an enemy have?
How can I assign an amount of XP points to an enemy that I have created for a campaign that I am writing? What would be a good way to decide, and still be fair? The campaign that I wrote is for the ...
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In calculating Basic D&D monster experience, what's a special ability?
I really like my good ol' Moldvay Basic D&D. Every once in a while, it's missing a rule I want, and I make it up. Then I feel clever. Sometimes, though, I want to know what everybody else did ...
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Is the use of XP as a narrative currency for both GMs and players a novel idea?
In Monte Cook's new roleplaying game Numenera, XP is used as a narrative currency not only by the GM but by the players as well. Taken from his design diaries:
Say the PCs find a hidden console ...
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When to apply XP in Pathfinder?
I'm running a Pathfinder game from the beginners box, I can't find anywhere that states when to apply the XP earned from encounters.
The Game Master's guide states in Wrapping up a session (p21):
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What rewards can compete with experience points?
My group is running a series of published adventures. I am GMing one of the modules (level 21-24) after which another member will be taking the reins.
I have plans for a side-adventure that will take ...
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Experience gap closure and level adjustment
This question was raised at the latest session of my D&D group. I just changed my PC, so I got the xp penalty the Dungeon Master's Guide suggests (a little less than that, to be precise). To ...
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When is an activity practice instead of exposure?
While engaging in Overly Complex and Extremely Detailed* character generation with one of my players recently, he raised the point that I was being too stingy with XP in seasons when he was performing ...
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What is the purpose of slow experience gain in Pathfinder Society Organized Play?
Pathfinder Society Organized Play allows players to advance either 1XP or 1/2XP per session. There are no advantages offered by taking the slower XP (experience) gain, so why would someone use this ...
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Rebalancing Experience Point Totals?
Say that through legal game play some player characters have gained a lot more XP than others. Should the referee take steps to rebalance the player characters, or just let it go as it is part of the ...
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Do any games have XP (or a similar concept) as an in-game construct?
Experience Points (or Karma, or Legend-points, etc.) are given as an award to the players that can be used to improve the capabilities of their characters and to monitor general "progress". In all ...
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Amount of Ability Score on level up in Pathfinder?
First of all, I'm really new to RPGs, and I cannot find in the core rules or online how many ability score to give a character at level 4,8,12,16,20. The manual says "and possibly an ability score ...
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How much experience should a PC be worth?
Long story short, I'm about to betray my party (by trying to kill them). Assuming they defeat me, how much experience should they get? I am a level 14 Drow Psion.
Edit: Not sure if this will change ...
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How should I budget for ally/third party NPCs in 4e combats?
I've done a few combats recently where the PCs and their enemies were not the only participants in the fight. I wasn't sure how to budget XP in this case.
In the case of an NPC ally I see two ...
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How does a DM deal with characters leveling up too quickly for the module, due to side-quests/ random encounters?
My group and I are playing the Thunderspire Labryinth adventure for 4th edition, levels 4-6, and our DM added in a lot cool side-quests and random encounters. The only problem is that now we are ...
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Is there a formula to calculate level given experience?
I have a spreadsheet that tracks the XP for our group and I've gotten tired of manually looking up how much xp is needed for the next level.
I'd much prefer if there was a formula I could put on the ...
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What are the consequences of changing the ratio of XP to GP?
One issue with older versions of D&D that heavily relied on treasure GP is that characters have to become rich to advance so that by fourth or fifth level mundane equipment costs become ...
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What's a good way to use treasure XP in 4th edition?
I've been incorporating some houserules to give my 4e game a more old-school feel, as I would probably be running a 1e game if my players didn't love having powers so much.
One thing I'd love to do ...
