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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3316460" data-attributes="member: 4937">When a character goes off solo, he earns individual XP.  This sometimes happens, particularly with rogues that going recon individually.  I also give out individual XP for good role playing.In general, you should always divide XP evenly so long as the group is acting like a group.  All combats, even if you swing and miss, even if you didn't get a chance to act, so long as you participated (even unwillingly) you get XP.  The surgery is a borderline case.  I would in general treat non-combat awards basically like combat awards.  As long as you are willing to participate, everyone shares in the award.  Basically, this means that the combat characters get to share in non-combat rewards in the same way that the less combat heavy characters mooched off them during the fights.   It basically evens out, and it avoid RL party disputes and keeps one player from dominating play.  There are times though when I can see a cases when you can make an argument for an individual award as a bonus when the task performed is only valuable to (and possibly only performable) by a certain class.  By this I don't mean the rogue disarming the trap, because the trap threatened the party.  I mean more along the lines of the wizard reading the book on ancient runes found in the library, which doesn't directly aid in advancing the story, or the rogue successfully picking the merchant's pocket in the market place while the team is looking for information.The chief times I don't divide XP evenly among a party is when I have story awards which are alignment dependent.   For example, destroying an unholy item of some sort (or an altar dedicated to an evil diety) might have a story reward divided among good aligned characters only.  Even if the non-good characters participate, they don't get the bonus.  This is essentially a RP award.  I'm giving out bonuses to characters for accepting the burden of taking thier alignment seriously.</blockquote>

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