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Agreed, and as in my eyes this has always been a rather big hole in the game system, a year or two back I finally got around to...

Depends greatly on who-what is in the rest of the party. They're not all bloodthirsty killers. :) Also depends on how subtle or...

The math in 5e is, or seems to be, fairly forgiving when it comes to variable levels within a party; much like BX-1e-2e were. I assume...

With a certain type of risk-averse player (with which I have far too much experience), if you don't either reward them for having their...

Problem is, achieving more or less exact balance in every situation seems to be the point for some here. And that just ain't gonna happen.

You could get away with this a little bit back in the OD&D days becaue the semi-geometric levelling meant you'd probably mostly-catch up...

Identical ability scores might push a little bit toward balance in play but by no means will they or can they guarantee it, which has...

What is useless is expecting identical ability scores to cause balance in play.

My character is surviving at home and gaining xp while the others are dying off in the field and thus no longer gaining xp. You can't...

Most of the time the difference comes about from one of two situations: --- an enemy uses the darkness to catch the party off guard...

Chicken-and-egg: you need light in order to find the enemies you want to set on fire to provide light..... :)

Sure, I'd make a new character as well, though I'd expect it to come in slightly behind those already present as it hasn't done as much...

Materials, time, and magic are part of the fiction. Xp aren't so much (though levels certainly can be), therefore that part of the cost...

As it specifically involves the character shedding blood (nicely abstracted by the hit point loss) it sounds pretty non-meta to me. Far...

They don't do it every session but if they are going to take off in an unforeseen direction the start of the session is by far the most...