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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8197399" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>You could, but doing it that way doesn't really speak well to the relative risk of each section. A party should get more xp for taking out the Gnolls in KotB than for the Kobolds, regardless of the sequence in which these events occur.</p><p></p><p>Er...um...they get levels they haven't earned, its that what you're saying?</p><p></p><p>Let's for simplicity's sake say each milestone letter represents a level; thus milestone F would in theory mean reaching 7th level. So if they miss C and E are you saying that hitting F should still get them to 7th? If yes, doesn't this overly encourage the players to skip as much potentially interesting stuff as they can and just get straight to the boss fight (or equivalent) as soon as they think they can handle it? Bleah! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Or are you saying that because they hit A, B and D, that F being the fourth gets them to 4th level (in other words, the lettering sequence is irrelevant)? This also doesn't work for me in that I'm assuming that attaining each letter in the sequence carries a greater degree of risk, i.e. plowing through 3rd level to get to C carries much less risk than plowing through F to get to 7th; thus here they'd be under-rewarded for hitting F and then over-rewarded were they to go back and hit C.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8197399, member: 29398"] You could, but doing it that way doesn't really speak well to the relative risk of each section. A party should get more xp for taking out the Gnolls in KotB than for the Kobolds, regardless of the sequence in which these events occur. Er...um...they get levels they haven't earned, its that what you're saying? Let's for simplicity's sake say each milestone letter represents a level; thus milestone F would in theory mean reaching 7th level. So if they miss C and E are you saying that hitting F should still get them to 7th? If yes, doesn't this overly encourage the players to skip as much potentially interesting stuff as they can and just get straight to the boss fight (or equivalent) as soon as they think they can handle it? Bleah! :) Or are you saying that because they hit A, B and D, that F being the fourth gets them to 4th level (in other words, the lettering sequence is irrelevant)? This also doesn't work for me in that I'm assuming that attaining each letter in the sequence carries a greater degree of risk, i.e. plowing through 3rd level to get to C carries much less risk than plowing through F to get to 7th; thus here they'd be under-rewarded for hitting F and then over-rewarded were they to go back and hit C. [/QUOTE]
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