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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7387848" data-attributes="member: 5100"><p>Well, I guess it depends on your group. If someone in my group has to run his kid to the hospital, I'm definitely not going to see that as a reason for him to not advance at the same time as the other PCs. It's also not a unilateral decision on "a reason I don't like". It's the group's social contract.</p><p></p><p>Whatever social contract works for your group is appropriate for your group. I used to use the "no XP if you don't show" methodology and had no issues with it, at the time. I'd use it again, for a different group, too.</p><p></p><p>I think we moved to standardized XP, several years back, when several players -- none of whom had missed any sessions -- all had different totals written down. We assumed people had misheard, picked up their stuff before I'd awarded XP, or something similar, and just picked a total to assign to everyone. After that, the group got really casual about XP and some folks slowly stopped bothering to track it, since there were a couple of really anal-retentive types in the group. I'm sure players missed sessions, but it would have been for things that didn't bother <u>anyone</u> at the table. Ultimately, we just decided to track group XP, rather than character XP. It's pretty similar to how we moved from having all new/replacement PCs start at 1st level, to having them start at prior -1, to "just keep the same XP because losing a character sucks enough".</p><p></p><p>Now, moving from group XP to milestone actually was a GM call, on my part. I did it for reasons I explained in my first post. But... I ran it by the players and there were no objections. If there had been, we would have talked it through.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 7387848, member: 5100"] Well, I guess it depends on your group. If someone in my group has to run his kid to the hospital, I'm definitely not going to see that as a reason for him to not advance at the same time as the other PCs. It's also not a unilateral decision on "a reason I don't like". It's the group's social contract. Whatever social contract works for your group is appropriate for your group. I used to use the "no XP if you don't show" methodology and had no issues with it, at the time. I'd use it again, for a different group, too. I think we moved to standardized XP, several years back, when several players -- none of whom had missed any sessions -- all had different totals written down. We assumed people had misheard, picked up their stuff before I'd awarded XP, or something similar, and just picked a total to assign to everyone. After that, the group got really casual about XP and some folks slowly stopped bothering to track it, since there were a couple of really anal-retentive types in the group. I'm sure players missed sessions, but it would have been for things that didn't bother [U]anyone[/U] at the table. Ultimately, we just decided to track group XP, rather than character XP. It's pretty similar to how we moved from having all new/replacement PCs start at 1st level, to having them start at prior -1, to "just keep the same XP because losing a character sucks enough". Now, moving from group XP to milestone actually was a GM call, on my part. I did it for reasons I explained in my first post. But... I ran it by the players and there were no objections. If there had been, we would have talked it through. [/QUOTE]
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