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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7496940" data-attributes="member: 29398">Why not?&nbsp; Not every character gets involved in every xp-granting situation.&nbsp; Hell, not every character comes along on every adventure.And a range of levels within the party is inevitable over the long run, for the following reasons:- players cycling characters in and out of parties- level or xp loss (even were I running a system that in theory didn't have this, I'd put it right back in)- sudden level or xp gain e.g. from a wish or a DoMT card- giving out individual xp awards based on who actually participated in the combat/encounter/whateverAnd given as 5e supports all of these except perhaps the level loss (and even that can happen with a DoMT) I suggest your statement that level disparity cannot happen in 5e is untrue.That's one way to do it, for sure.What I tend to end up doing is setting a &quot;floor&quot; level (or, sometimes, xp number) which slowly rises as the average party level rises.&nbsp; Right now in my game it'd probably be 6th; and there's always a level range within any given party.As for what to do on perma-death - until the party gets back to town such that the player can bring in either a new or pre-existing character, that player takes over playing a party NPC of which there's always one or two.&nbsp; Usually.&nbsp; Exceptions happen. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7496940, member: 29398"] Why not? Not every character gets involved in every xp-granting situation. Hell, not every character comes along on every adventure. And a range of levels within the party is inevitable over the long run, for the following reasons: - players cycling characters in and out of parties - level or xp loss (even were I running a system that in theory didn't have this, I'd put it right back in) - sudden level or xp gain e.g. from a wish or a DoMT card - giving out individual xp awards based on who actually participated in the combat/encounter/whatever And given as 5e supports all of these except perhaps the level loss (and even that can happen with a DoMT) I suggest your statement that level disparity cannot happen in 5e is untrue. That's one way to do it, for sure. What I tend to end up doing is setting a "floor" level (or, sometimes, xp number) which slowly rises as the average party level rises. Right now in my game it'd probably be 6th; and there's always a level range within any given party. As for what to do on perma-death - until the party gets back to town such that the player can bring in either a new or pre-existing character, that player takes over playing a party NPC of which there's always one or two. Usually. Exceptions happen. :) Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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