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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cybern" data-source="post: 1062283" data-attributes="member: 13147">I both play and DM, and we've had these problems before.  In 2e, the more monsters you killed, the more XP you got.  We usually used a % of dam / % of XP system, wich in the long run favored wizards... until Combat and Tactics.  Now we use the 3/3.5 XP/CR system, but until Star Wars D20 came out, I had no idea how to put a CR on non-combat situations.  Since we played other games (white-wolf, shadowrun etc.), we started giving XP based on good roleplaying.  It seems that when you give XP on RP bases, some player will get many while some won't.  I never encouraged 3rd person RP (My character tells him ...), and my NPC often respond to these sentences (What character? 'You nuts?).  Some people can talk in strange ways, use accents, move around as their characters, while others sit still and talk in a monotonous tone.  Good in-game RP gets XP IMC.  I once had a player who did a mute character, so he wouldn't loose time RPing.  Cutting back on XP didn't deter him from his style, and never would I have given him his equal share of the xp.Also, thinking IN CHARACTER gets XP.  A player who don't want to act charmed while charmed gets a penalty IMC, and I don't wait until the end of the session to tell him (You just lost 500 there, you are charmed, so don't treat the goblin like a monster).However, I never gave XP based on some journal or somesuch, my girlfriend always finds time to write journals and lengthy background, and she never got 1xp for it.  Why?  Some of us struggle each week to find time to game, and are not to be penalized IMC for this.  If you like it that way, fine, but the XP gotten for it must NOT overshadow the XP for good roleplaying/thinking in-character/showing up motivated/...I think that if you don't give XP bonuses for RPing, but assign CRs to some situations (let go of him, he's innocent), then some PC will start to filter useless scenes and CR'ed scenes.  Bad, I say bad.just my .02 CAN $</blockquote>

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