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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hendrake69" data-source="post: 5439119" data-attributes="member: 61420">What I would do, since an 8th level character is more likely to contribute to the dispatching of a 4th level monster than a 1st level character, is share out the XP according to the PC's levels as follows - Levels 1-3 = 1 shareLevels 4-6 = 2 sharesLevels 7-9 = 3 shares So if a 1st level character is traveling with a 4th level character, a 6th level character and a 8th level character (basically a 5th level party), and they defeat 1000 XP worth of bad guys in an encounter, rather than getting 250 XP (even split), the 1st level guy would get - 1000 / 8 x 1 = 125 XP. - while the 4th and 6th level character would earn - 1000 / 8 x 2 = 250 XP (each) - and the 8th level character would earn - 1000 / 8 x 3 = 375 XP - which (I feel, anyway) reflects the higher burden load taken on by the higher level characters to put the bad guys down and still allows the 1st level character a level of progress that he wouldn't see without accompanying his more powerful friends (you know, 'cause he'd be dead).  I would say his "share" of whatever encounters he participated in. The other PCs (the dead ones) also earned their share of the XP, they just didn't 'get it' - 'cause they were, you know, dead. If there's a quest reward, well, I guess that depends on the quest. If the quest is, "Retrieve the Golden Bauble (for 1000 XP)" and he walks back into town with the Golden Bauble, well more power to him. If he drags his fellows all back to town and gets 'em raised from the dead, they probably won't begrudge him their XP... ...okay they probably WILL, but they SHOULDN'T... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />  Yeah, and give credit to those who participated in the fight, even if they were killed during it. That's only fair since their participation, even as just a meat-shield, contributed to the group victory.  I understand. I suspect that a 8+ higher-level monster would wipe the floor with most PCs anyway. <<<Snip - thanks for the insight!>>>  Take a look at this - <a href="http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/west/10/FC63" target="_blank">FC63: The agricultural revolution in medieval Europe - The Flow of History</a> - which at ten-to-one, jibes with most of my stuff. It's an interesting read too (to someone like me, anyway). Of course, that's during high middle ages (pre-Little Ice Age / Black Death) after all the good stuff (excepting high-yield crops and fertilizer [well, aside from dung, I suppose]) had been brought into play (crop rotation, heavy plows, plow horses). Generally, the high middle ages is the period games like D&D tend to emulate. After all, everything went downhill from there... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I readily admit to sometimes bringing the ratios up a bit from there (8 to 1 and even 5 to 1) to reflect...well, to reflect that D&D tends to have a lot of talented people running around and a lot of time to figure stuff out (most worlds have thousands of years of rising and falling civilizations, and at least a few sentient races that live a long, long time). Besides, there's just no other way that a town of three thousand perched between a wide river and a big dark forest and thirty miles from any other community can FEED itself if you don't cut 'em some breaks! 3-to-1 isn't outlandish of course, it's just...well, it's three times better than historically guessimated so I feel it's fair to say that it's advanced but not outside the realm of possibility. Certainly with high-yield crops, basic fertilizer (fish-based or even alchemy-based) and/or arcane or divine assistance it "feels" doable (from the comfort of our 21st century lifestyle). Figuring out the culture impact would be fun too (certainly it would justify there being plenty of bored locals willing to try to get-rich-quick doing something stupid like being becoming a hireling to a monster-hunter)! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I hear ya. Players never care anyway... ===>> "Whose in charge of the village?" - "Whom are you asking?" "Umm...the bartender." - "You approach an open-air tavern on the north side of the road. You note a crimson sheet stretching from between four deeply-sunk posts to provide a bit of shade. Unfortunately, most of the the shade is currently claimed by a graybearded tinker whose working on a..." "Yeah, yeah, yeah - you and your tinkers. Bunch of scallawags. I ask the tinker whose in charge." - "The tinker doesn't look up as he's concentrating on repairing a clasp on a silver-plated (the copper is showing through) necklace. He does, however, respond by saying, "Daen MacKane." Almost immediately after he says this, a large man wearing an apron emerges from the attached single-story building carrying a platter with a tin cup and a bowl of stew. The halfling smells fish." "Well at least it's not eels. Okay, we go find him." - "Who?" "Daen MacKane!" - "Where?" "Argh! Fine! We ask big guy with the stew where we can find Daen MacKane." - The man appears a bit surprised to find four heavily armed Monster Hunters standing on his stoop. He recovers quickly though. Dave, roll a 20 sided. Thank you. He says, "Your pardon, my lord, I am uncertain how I should answer that question. Perhaps if you told me what you wish of him I could..." "I really hate you, you know." <<===  Thanks! I do hope you write more "story" even if you've worked out the mechanics. I really enjoyed it. I like the looks of Legends & Labyrinths. Thanks for the Link!!!</blockquote>

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