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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 6038519" data-attributes="member: 3887">The way I look at it, if things even out in the end, why not even them out from the start? Seems simpler that way.In my past two campaigns (3e & 4e) I used group XP -- just making some number up that sounded good. Everyone, including new and replacement/alternate PC, had the same total. I didn't just hand out levels, but I might as well have. I guess I still have affection for arbitrarily-assigned values. For my current AD&D game, I tally every GP of treasure and HP of defeated foe, then divide it evenly between the PCs, present and not. Why do I bother? Nostalgia, mainly, plus an interest in seeing how quickly PCs gain levels from looting the classic AD&D modules, plus random encounters generated from the DMG.</blockquote>