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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4701220" data-attributes="member: 29398">That's fair.Perhaps I should rephrase.My concern is the player who intentionally holds their otherwise-capable character back, or sends it elsewhere, and leaves the other characters stuck with the risks; in full knowledge there is no loss of ExP for doing so.As in: (party consists of Rick the Ranger, Fred the Fighter, Meg the Magician, Ted the Thief, and Chad the Cleric; all are at full health)Rick returns from scouting: "Guys, there's signs of a Giant in the next valley; we've found the beast at last.  Let's get after it."  Rest of party agrees.  (party plows into valley; it soon becomes obvious to all a Giant lives here)Ted: "There it is!  Lookout, it's seen us!"  (everyone gets ready for a battle except Fred)Fred: "Uh, guys, I thought I saw someone following us a while back.  Maybe I'll just back off up the trail 100 yards and hide...you know, get the drop on him." (Fred retreats, leaving the other four to deal with the Giant) (DM knows full well there is nobody following; that Fred has no in-character reason to think anyone is, and that Fred's player is making it up)  (a 4-on-1 battle follows, party get hammered; they come out victorious but Ted gets killed.  While remaining party are patching themselves up afterwards - in other words, as soon as the risk is over - Fred returns without a scratch on him)Fred: "Didn't see a thing on the trail.  How'd things go here?  Where's Ted?"By the logic being presented, Fred gets full ExP for this battle. (and Ted, I suppose, gets none)Ridiculous.Lanefan</blockquote>

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