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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 2881988" data-attributes="member: 317">Usually I structure my classes so most of the points come from exams and quizzes, but I have a certain number of discretionary points (around 10% of the total point value) built into the class as participation points.  So no, I won't arbitrarily penalize someone, since the bulk of their grade comes from their individual efforts in class, and only a few times in the time I've been teaching have I had to knock down the participation points a lot due to lack of effort, or poor behavior in class, and always with a warning to the student in question.And yeah, the campaign has been going 13 years now, with mostly the same people the entire time.  My sister plays the wizard, the paladin in a high school buddy, the witch (homebrew class) is the paladin player's wife, the ranger is another high school friend, the bard is a girl I met in undergrad, the druid is a friend of the paladin player, and I have a DM NPC (NOT pet NPC) that is a rogue that seems to get into trouble and humiliate himself on a regular basis.  There have been 4 other people come and go at various points in the campaign, but all of them stayed for at least 2 or 3 years before real-life concerns forced them to quit (moving, school, etc).  I started the campaign back at the end of my freshman year of undergrad, and for about 5 years, we played every week or two for 6-8 hours per session.  After that, as people drifted off to grad schools, the gaming got less frequent, but we still make time to get everyone together 2-4 times a year for a whole weekend of gaming.  I'm still ancy to get further along on that whole Schonnberg subplot (which initially encompassed just the bard, but the whole group is VERY interested in that one now). <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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