el-remmen
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Note the TAG. . . this question is about 1E (though anyone who played B/X or BECMI is welcome to chime in - not interested in later editions (for now)).
So I started a poll thread about awarding XP (or not) in 5E because I wanted to see how people did it and if I was as much of an outlier as I thought I might be and the answer (so far) is that I was even more of an outlier than I thought I was in actually tabulating XP and giving out that amount (mostly for monsters killed) at what I consider milestones (either at the end of an adventure or after a definitive part of a long module before moving on to the next part). Thus I give out XP every 3 to 6 sessions (at most). (I usually only award XP during downtime).
So once I realized I am the odd man out in what I considered the "typical" way, I started wondering why did I think this was the typical way? And then I wondered, did I get this tack from my earliest days playing B/X and 1E?
So that is my question, if you played 1E back in its heyday how often was XP awarded back then and under what conditions? I know back then treasure was also a big part of XP as was magical items (in some groups). Am I just taking the idiosyncratic approach of the groups I started with as standard and that was not all that common at all?
If you still play 1E (or its offshoots) regularly now, you can also chime in - but I am most interested in back in the day (let's say approximately from 1977 to 1989)
So I started a poll thread about awarding XP (or not) in 5E because I wanted to see how people did it and if I was as much of an outlier as I thought I might be and the answer (so far) is that I was even more of an outlier than I thought I was in actually tabulating XP and giving out that amount (mostly for monsters killed) at what I consider milestones (either at the end of an adventure or after a definitive part of a long module before moving on to the next part). Thus I give out XP every 3 to 6 sessions (at most). (I usually only award XP during downtime).
So once I realized I am the odd man out in what I considered the "typical" way, I started wondering why did I think this was the typical way? And then I wondered, did I get this tack from my earliest days playing B/X and 1E?
So that is my question, if you played 1E back in its heyday how often was XP awarded back then and under what conditions? I know back then treasure was also a big part of XP as was magical items (in some groups). Am I just taking the idiosyncratic approach of the groups I started with as standard and that was not all that common at all?
If you still play 1E (or its offshoots) regularly now, you can also chime in - but I am most interested in back in the day (let's say approximately from 1977 to 1989)
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