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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blackbrrd" data-source="post: 4230399" data-attributes="member: 63962">My group tends to stop role playing when we are in combat. Therefore I am thinking of giving xp to players who manage to stay in character in combat. You really remember the combat when the Minotaur 13th level fighter at 1 hp charges the main bad guy while shouting: "FOR THE EMPEROR!!!"*. It was clear that the character expected to meet his Emperor that day.Until that moment it wasn't really clear who the lawful neutral Minotaurs owed his allegiance. If the player instead of shouting his war cry had just said "I charge the wizard", we wouldn't have had that insight into the character.We had at that time played the characters for over two years, starting at level 1. Therefore I am going to encourage RP in combat more than we have until now.I don't know if I am actually going to give XP for RP in combat, but I am seriously contemplating it. Giving RP XP quickly turns into a quagmire of problems though. "Hey, I was in character the whole evening and only got 100xp for it while A got 200xp, whyyyy?!". Most of the players in my group wouldn't say it directly, but they would at times felt like saying it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />*The Emperor is the Minotaur name of Kiri-Jolith in the Dragonlance campaign setting</blockquote>

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