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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 2552039" data-attributes="member: 3887">I can answer some of these...Good question... because its traditional?Define 'earn'. In every game I've ever played in, there have been players that did little more than roll dice when told to do so (I guess they just liked the company, and that's fine by me). They got XP for showing up. And other players were just lucky idiots. They get XP too.Since the game --in all pratical terms--  isn't a meritocracy, its not much of a strectch to award a hypothetical good player with a hectice schedule XP for missed sessions. I personally value quality participation above consistant particiaption.  That works too. Escpecially when you view level as a summary of the kind of challenges faced (and a aggregate of the PC abilities used to overcome them).  Items cost gold, time, rare materials, and DM fiat.Hasn't come up yet. This whole 'single party XP total for all PC's' is an experiment.Again, it hasn't come up. I imagine I'll treat level draining by the book, and make regaining those levels the plot of the next adventure/story arc.Now this baffles me... My players are present during the game because they enjoy playing. Their satisfaction comes from something other than just accruing XP (which isn't to say that isn't fun). My group doesn't play in the world of "Harrison Bergeron". Everthing isn't equalized.When you sit down to play, with whatever character, everybody's the same level. That's all. Miss a few sessions, want to try a new character concept, bring an old character back? Fine, no problem. Just play. That's the interesting part...</blockquote>

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