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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2552978" data-attributes="member: 30035">I've got to agree with you there, ThirdWizard. Regular play does not necessarily a good player make. I've been playing with the same group for 10 years, and there's one player who hasn't changed his style of play at all in that time, despite having plenty of examples of things he should probably do differently with this group of people. He's also the *least* likely to miss a game session.I've always wondered: if one awards XP for roleplaying (not just killing things), how does one decide what to award? Suppose one has a player who has to miss games frequently due to circumstances beyond his/her control, but that person is a fabulous roleplayer and brings a tremendous amount of pleasure to one's experience as a DM. Then one has a second player who is always present and rarely misses a session, but brings very little to the table other than a body in a chair. Does one still give full XP to Mr. Non-Entity because he's there, and withhold XP for the often-missing player?</blockquote>