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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hanasays" data-source="post: 4459114" data-attributes="member: 15060">I just finished taking part in a marathon session.  The game is a tabletop Warcraft campaign (which is essentially D20) and my brother is the DM.  This was the very first session playing with these characters, so we went through the "introductory phase".The interesting bit was that the entire session was RP.  It was only me and one other player, as the third member of our party was unable to make it today.  I'm playing a True Neutral Human Runemaster ("Kreuwig"), but the way that my character is set up, he's basically a wizard who punches people in the face.  It's interesting because it's strange being both the primary tank and the primary caster.  The other player is a Chaotic Neutral Goblin Rogue ("Gobstab") who has basically turned out to be a kleptomaniac to the point of (amusing) near-idiocy.With no combat encounters, we really didn't get much Experience.  My brother doesn't hand out a whole lot of EXP to begin with, and he's usually reluctant to hand out roleplaying Experience Points, although he did hand some out this session (and to tell the truth, some DMs don't hand out EXP for roleplaying AT ALL, so I can't complain).  House Rules place a hard cap on the maximum amount of RP experience you can accrue per session.  It worried me for a bit going into this campaign as it's only the second one he has ever run, and I worried that it would cause the other players to stop trying to role-play as there was little point, especially since I have played for years and years (since practically grade-school) but both of them are very new to the game (this is the first time they've played a tabletop roleplaying game).  Being mainly video-game players, I thought that they would largely focus on hack-and-slash and leveling.However, I noticed that the other player really took to his character and did a great job role-playing.  I also enjoyed playing Kreuwig, and I can tell he's going to be a lot of fun to play.  The session was awesome, better since we recorded it for posterity.  It's hard not to get attached to characters, but in the case of the one I currently have, with the way his personality works I wouldn't mind going down if it meant I could go out with a bang.So far, we are really enjoying playing our characters and getting up to non-combat antics despite the lack of EXP and knowing that, with this particular DM, leveling is very slow and most EXP is very hard-won.  It hasn't seemed to impact the behavior of the other players so far, although this was only session #1 and I don't know if this will carry throughout the entire campaign.  It's not a bad start, though.I know a lot of players play some pretty RP-heavy campaigns, and most of the campaigns I play in with this group of people are fairly RP-heavy (for changes of pace, there's a different group I play with that is very much comedic hack-and-slash).  What campaigns have you played in where RP took precedence over combat and experience points, even to the point where you've lost Experience Points?  How about campaigns where you enjoyed playing your character to the point where you really didn't care whether you leveled or not?  What sort of character did you play, and what did you enjoy the most about it?</blockquote>

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