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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8129676" data-attributes="member: 29398">First off, experience points are something earned by the character, not the player.  No meta-level xp for bringing beer, or for writing up a ten-page backstory for your PC, or for being the funniest player.Along with this: your character continues to do what it does - including gain xp if it earns any - even though you-as-player missed that session.Second off, the character gets xp for what it does as an individual.  If for whatever reason you're not involved in whatever earned the xp you don't get any of those xp.  This is to discourage 'passenger' characters, which have sometimes been a problem in the past.Third, in my games xp can be earned in several ways.  Combat (or avoidance of same) is the most common.  Overcoming other obstacles e.g. traps or sticky social situations.  And at the end of each adventure I give out a 'dungeon bonus' which in part replaces the xp they'd have got for treasure (which I've never done) and in part covers off all the day-to-day little things that would otherwise earn 1 xp here and 2 xp there that I haven't the patience to track and record.  Advancement is (by 3e-4e-5e standards) very slow: this is intentional both to extend the campaign length and to take focus away from levelling and put it on day-to-day adventuring instead.Fourth, you have to train into a new level and you have to pay for it.  The training forces parties to take some downtime now and then and also forces them to share out their treasury (which might otherwise never get done!); and the payments act as a wealth reducer (I could eliminate the payments and just give out less treasure, but where's the fun in that; and a character can always choose not to train at cost of advancing at half-rate).</blockquote>

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