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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vuron" data-source="post: 112499" data-attributes="member: 14">Psion, you chide me for using FRCS rules when ECLs are FRCS rules themselves?Honestly I don't see any real big problem with different characters recieving different XP awards. The rules for doing this while not neccesarily delineated in the core rules is really not that difficult to accomplish. Let's give some examples:Party Composition:1st Lvl Human Fighter (ECL 1)1st Lvl Aasimar Cleric (ECL 2)1st Lvl Drow Mage (ECL 3)1st Lvl Snirfneblin Rogue (ECL 4)Let's say the fresh party goes out and kills a pair of Ogres (EL 4) the award for the Human, Aasimar and Drow are 1,350 XP and 1200 for the snirfneblin. With this award the human fighter becomes 2nd lvl while the remainder of the characters remain 1st level. They go out the next day and manage to defeat a 2nd lvl drow cleric who is out to get the outcast mage. This is also an EL 4 encounter and like before the Human, Aasimar and Drow all get 1,350 XP while the Snirfneblin gets 1200 XP.Later on they defeat 4 Orcs and 1 Ogre also a EL4 encounter.After these three encounters (probably tougher than neccesary to delineate the system quickly) The Human, Aasimar, and Drow have all gained 4050 XP, while the snirfneblin has gained 3600 XP. This places the Human at 4,050 XP thus a 3rd lvl fighter. The Aasimar has a total of 5,050 XP thus  is a 2nd lvl Cleric, the Drow has 7,050 XP and is a lvl 2 Mage, the snirfneblin has 9,600 XP and is still a lvl 1 Thief.At this point in time the Human and Aasimar are ECL 3, while the Drow is ECL 4. So effectively the supposed gap in power has done alot of shrinking and this will likely completely disappear within one or two levels. By the time the human is 5th lvl he is probably outstripping the other characters in raw power.Honestly I see absolutely no problem in this the higher ECL characters are in effect taking out a loan of XP that they have to pay back. So in return for a handful of kewl powers they are forced to sit and wait why the humans grow to match if not surpass them. And you have a problem with this?</blockquote>

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