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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3291711" data-attributes="member: 32740">I have applied XP penalties in times past that would result in LESS XP for the PC when XP was being handed out.  Disruptive or uninvolved Players and their PC's being the primary reason for that (and few and far between were those incidents thankfully), but once upon a time there were actual rules for XP penalties for alignment changes.  I don't recall if I ever had the brass to apply the full penalty thereof, but I'm sure I did something along those lines.However, give out ZERO xp at rewards time, or spontaneously hit a PC with negative XP arbitrarily and ad hoc?  Never done that.  Might have been a time when I would have done it if the player had REALLY ticked me off (and THAT is no mean feat).  But since I left 2E behind I'd not even consider it.Edit: this assumes there is XP to have been earned in the first place.  I have given 0 xp on "Papers & Paychecks" sessions where the PC's don't "adventure" but do spend time tallying up piles of gold from here and there, commissioning new armor, building a new tower, calling followers, consulting sages, enchanting new items, etc.  There were plenty of times in some campaigns where that sort of stuff accumulated until a big chunk of (or even all of) a session would be accounting and paper shuffling with perhaps some RP thrown in to sound out new adventure possibilities or initiate some follow-up on old ones - and thus 0 XP for anyone for the evening.</blockquote>

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