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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 2047606" data-attributes="member: 12328">And you played until 3 a.m.?!  Anyway, I think my players would mutiny in the face of the level spread you have.  As far as XP spread goes, it looks like you played the equivalent of about 3 of our regular sessions; and different people showed up for different parts.  It sounds reasonable that they have different XP awards.My real question is, what happens to the character when the player isn't there?  Here's how I work it.  If the character is there, then the character garners expereince.  If the character departs with the player, then the character gets no experience.  I've been doing this so that the players have a little more incentive to show up and play so their characters can advance.  In my current game, most of the 8 PCs are 4th level.  A couple of lucky ones are 5th.  I think 1 is pushing 6th.  When a character dies, the replacement gets half the expereince of the dead one--adjusted to the minimum for the module.  One PC in particular has lived and has been played in all but 1 of 20 sessions, so that PC is the leader in XP.  I also quit keeping a spreadsheet for xp, which sounds similar to your sign-in sheet.  It's just too much work.  Now, I award blue poker chips for good play: having a painted miniature, good roleplay, or whatever else I want to encourage.  A chip is worth a reroll of any d20 or a 5% xp bonus at the end of the session.  That way, the reward is immediate and tangible.  It also allows the players more heroic control over the outcomes of events.  At the end of each session, I tally and award xp on the spot.  People cash in their chips.  I'm done.  I find there's more than enough other work to do to get ready for the next week's session than figuring up xp between sessions.  You could use a similar system and just do the tally & cash-in when a player enters or leaves the game.  I am intrigued by the idea of your halfling game.  Are all the PCs halflings?</blockquote>

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