xp for maintenance actions?
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Also keep in mind that in 3E all XP is shared among the entire party.
It may not seem fair, but it's designed to make the party work together as a team. No more trying to steal kills from each other for the XP. No more "team work means letting the weakest character deliver the killing blow".
And no more Rangers going out to kill some XP sources to level up...
At best, the ranger going out hunting falls under "good roleplaying", and you can give him some extra XP for playing his role well.
It may not seem fair, but it's designed to make the party work together as a team. No more trying to steal kills from each other for the XP. No more "team work means letting the weakest character deliver the killing blow".
And no more Rangers going out to kill some XP sources to level up...At best, the ranger going out hunting falls under "good roleplaying", and you can give him some extra XP for playing his role well.
drakhe
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This is how I handle XP:
For XP I use a spreadsheet that simply contains a column per player. Then I'll go back over the session (based on memory/notes) and type a row for every event I think is worth XP.
For encounters I use the DnD3e rules (based in CR and EL and dividing XP among the characters present etc). For other events I decide myself how much XP it's worth.
In some cases I'll award XP for maintenance tasks (for instance a ranger goes hunting when the party resources are depleted or a fighter that remembers to take care of his horse and weapons)
but only when the task is performed in special circumstances. I mean, no XP for players that drone "I take care of my horse and sharpen and oil my sword before sleeping for 8 hours" because they "perform" the task to get the XP, not because the game at that point needs this task performed to avoid certain consequences.
For the same reason I'll sometimes NOT give XP for an encounter if the party completely ignores background or story and handles the encounter purely as a number crunching exercise.
For XP I use a spreadsheet that simply contains a column per player. Then I'll go back over the session (based on memory/notes) and type a row for every event I think is worth XP.
For encounters I use the DnD3e rules (based in CR and EL and dividing XP among the characters present etc). For other events I decide myself how much XP it's worth.
In some cases I'll award XP for maintenance tasks (for instance a ranger goes hunting when the party resources are depleted or a fighter that remembers to take care of his horse and weapons)
but only when the task is performed in special circumstances. I mean, no XP for players that drone "I take care of my horse and sharpen and oil my sword before sleeping for 8 hours" because they "perform" the task to get the XP, not because the game at that point needs this task performed to avoid certain consequences.
For the same reason I'll sometimes NOT give XP for an encounter if the party completely ignores background or story and handles the encounter purely as a number crunching exercise.
If you really just want to give him XP for hunting, in the Silver Marches splatbook it has both the Deer and the Elk pg 119. Deer is CR 1/6 and Elk is CR 1. Of course if he was really anal about it I would make him roll to hit and damage. ANd if didn't kill the animal in one hit then the animal is giong to bolt.
Bagpuss
Legend
Hunting is already covered by a simple Wilderness Lore check.
It does nothing to advance the adventure and monopolises the DM's time on trivial matters while the rest of the party gets to twiddle its thumbs and you want to reward this sort of behaviour?
If I was part of the rest of the party I would start to get annoyed by the attention given to one player just to get dinner, so forgive me if I'm a little confused.
It does nothing to advance the adventure and monopolises the DM's time on trivial matters while the rest of the party gets to twiddle its thumbs and you want to reward this sort of behaviour?
If I was part of the rest of the party I would start to get annoyed by the attention given to one player just to get dinner, so forgive me if I'm a little confused.
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