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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 190171" data-attributes="member: 3987">I'm not sure what you mean by solo play? Since XP however it is gained in my game is split evenly among the party.Say the rogue wanders of ahead and disarms a trap, and then gets into a fight with a guard and kills him. Even though the rogue could be said to have done those encounters solo, the whole party share the experience. Since the rogue will probably have been healed by the cleric, perhaps made invisible by the mage and when he comes running back with a hoard of orcs chasing him he gets his neck saved by the fighter.If the rest of the party wasn't there then you can bet the rogue would not have been alive to defeat the trap or find the guard in the first place.If you turn up for a session you get the same experience as everyone else, which is based on the CR of the encounters the party deals with. Since XP is always shared soloing is a bad idea as you get most of the risk, but you don't get all of the reward, this encourages the party to work together.As far as I can see this is how the DMG tells you to assign XP anyway.</blockquote>