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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2549758" data-attributes="member: 22622">Its not as much as punishing players as much as it is rewarding the players who are there.  YOu're not really punishing anyone.  You're not taking anything away.  You're giving xp to people who play your game.  Your question si similiar to saying why is Mountain Dew punishing me for not buying their drink.  How come i didnt get a chance to earn a xbox.  Well, their not, their just giving a reward to those who play, just like d and d.  Now, players whom miss consequitive sessions in my campaign without calling or with a lame excuse I normally boot out of my campaign.  That is punishment.  I've done this a few times.  The big reason is because as a DM, alot of my stories and games revolve around the players and I might write 8 to 10 pages of handout for a pc only for him not to show up all of a sudden.  That's irritating to me.  Then I have to explain what that character is doing while the pc is fighting the dragon or just play it as an npc (which i hate doing).  I dont mind doing it once but when it becomes frequent that is me taking away from time i could be spending with other pcs.  If you're really about the fun, why do you care about if you got xp or not?  Sounds kind of counterproductive to your argument.  Its like saying "I am not doing this work for the money buut for fun " then at the endo f the day complaining that you didn't get your check.</blockquote>

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