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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demmero" data-source="post: 2551402" data-attributes="member: 13641">There are no beneficial effects.  However, there may be detrimental effects if other players in the group see XPs to absentees as a "free ride."I personally see it in the best interest of the game to put a little more weight on the wishes and opinions of players who show up consistently than on those with a more spotty attendance record.  YMMV.I have a question or three to put to the "same XPs whether the player shows or not" gang.  Say the player who plays the PC wizard shows up for every game while everyone else shows up 80% of the time.  He uses item creation feats to make magical goodies for all the party members, and thus falls behind in XP to the sometimes-players.  Do you allow that or just dump the XP cost from your games?  What if he dies and is raised?  What if he died because the Fighter's player didn't show that night and whoever RPed him forgot that the fighter always looked out for the wimpy wizard?  Fair?</blockquote>