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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrZombie" data-source="post: 1389793" data-attributes="member: 15640">First of all, I don't have any problems with giving XP to players for writing in-char journals. As a gamesmaster I never do though. Here's just a few thoughts as to whi I don't , although I have no problems whatsoever with you giving XP. One of the problems is that Dimwit Halfbrain the Blood-Soaked Barbarian is very unlikely to be able to write, never mind writing a personal diary. So whoever plays Dimwit is "missing out" on XP. You could, however, allow "fireside tales" to be told, or something like that. On th other hand, they might be a bit hard to build in. Another one is that not all the players are able to write a tale or diary. Writing, like singing or painting, is a talent. If you give XP based on the quality it would disadvantage some, if you give XP on just writing, expect some pretty pathetic prose <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> .  Last one, maybe specific to ENworld: Some people don't speak english as their native tongue. I spent a year in England, read a lot of english fiction, and I'm pretty convinced my spoken english is very good. My written english is something altogether different (as you've noticed by my many spelling disasters), and writing prose in a different language is extremely difficult. You just cannot get the same fine distinctions as you have in your mothers tongue (one of the reasons we had the "poofter incident") Anyways, I don't give a rat's ass about XP, I've enjoyed the game tremendously so far, haven't levelled up yet but don't really have time to do so and I don't mind waiting a bit. What I'm trying to say is, if people wanna write something and you wanna give 'em XP , by all means do so. I won't write because Raven isn't the writing type, but I'll enjoy reading it.</blockquote>

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