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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malin Genie" data-source="post: 889759" data-attributes="member: 1058">My experiences in LG have also been a mixed bag - but as with any gaming, it's a combination of the adventure itself, DM and other players.  You can have a 'poor' adventure that's made a lot of fun by a good DM and players; and vice versa....Most LGers I know (and part of this may be that they are relatively mature) are into RPing their characters and solving the challenges - XP and gp are nice but secondary.  But yes, you do get thrown in with people whose style is different, especially at big Cons; if your only experience has been at games where you are assigned to tables with strangers rather than playing with people you know, that may explain part of the problem ('Ah!  A Wand of Cure Light Wounds...I mean, a Cleric has joined our table....')On the subject of XP awards, the LG DMs I play with would never even consider giving fewer XP for intelligently avoiding an obstacle as for 'defeating it in combat' (the DMG section on XP basically states this as one of the basic rules of awarding XP.)  If 'defeat crocodile' is listed in the XP section, then 'Ranger uses Animal Empathy to get it to back down' or 'Rogue rigs up ropes through the trees that allow the party to get past it unmolested' or 'Cleric of Ehlonna casts 'Calm Animal' so that it doesn't attack in the first place' would all get equal XP.So to get to the point of a long ramble - don't give up on LG because of a few bad experiences - try to find a group you do enjoy playing with (or visit Perrenland!)</blockquote>

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