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<blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3215352" data-attributes="member: 9037">It has never become an issue in our games. The ones who don't write journals enjoy reading the journals and don't mind the extra 50 XP the others get. &nbsp;I also give out extra XP for clever plans and really heroic deads.I am just having a problem wrapping my mind around players just watching other players characters die and doing nothing to help. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> The people I play with are usually foaming at the mouth ready to roll those dice. If I had that issue in a game I would be tempted to give out variable XP too.My issue with what the DM was doing was different you did not get XP unless you actually hit and delivered the death blow. So say you wore the orc down with your sword and the mage cast magic missle and down goes the orc then the mage gets credit for the kill.Or in one case we had encounter and the paladin of the party use diplomacy and avioded a fight he got a lot of XP for the encounter and the rest of us got nada. After that as soon as the pally opened his mouth someone would charge in. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious&nbsp; &nbsp; :]" data-shortname=":]" /> I really think we are talking two difernt things about variable XP.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elf Witch, post: 3215352, member: 9037"] It has never become an issue in our games. The ones who don't write journals enjoy reading the journals and don't mind the extra 50 XP the others get. I also give out extra XP for clever plans and really heroic deads. I am just having a problem wrapping my mind around players just watching other players characters die and doing nothing to help. :confused: The people I play with are usually foaming at the mouth ready to roll those dice. If I had that issue in a game I would be tempted to give out variable XP too. My issue with what the DM was doing was different you did not get XP unless you actually hit and delivered the death blow. So say you wore the orc down with your sword and the mage cast magic missle and down goes the orc then the mage gets credit for the kill. Or in one case we had encounter and the paladin of the party use diplomacy and avioded a fight he got a lot of XP for the encounter and the rest of us got nada. After that as soon as the pally opened his mouth someone would charge in. :] I really think we are talking two difernt things about variable XP. [/QUOTE]

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