1.15.1 Experience awards from adventures

As a character has adventures, the character will progress and become more capable. To reflect this, for every adventure a character participates in, the referee should award the character some experience points.

The award of experience points is at the referee's discretion. Different referees may adopt different approaches to character progression, and therefore may tend to award more or less experience points. The following represents base-line guidance on:

Normally, role-playing sessions last roughly 5 hours. An individual adventure may take more than one session to complete. It is generally good practice to make experience awards at the end of each session, while the memory of the session's events are fresh in everyone's memory.

The total experience point award for a session will typically vary from 0 eps to 3 eps. The minimum experience point award for a session is zero eps.

There are three elements that will normally make up a character's experience point award for a session:

For example, Cogan the barbarian is adventuring as part of a party escorting a merchant's caravan through wilderness. The party successfully escorted the caravan and also managed to discover that one of the members of the caravan was an enemy spy - the referee rewards all the characters in the party with a basic award of 1 1/2 eps. On one occasion, the caravan was attacked by mounted raiders - seeing that there were too many raiders for the party to best, Cogan told the rest of the party to get the caravan to safety and then single-handedly charged the raiders to buy the caravan time to escape. In the process, he slew the raiders' leader and a couple of others and then narrowly escaped with his life. The referee rules this was a major feat and gives Cogan an extra 1/2 ep to reflect this. During the adventure, Cogan was well-roleplayed, trying (unsuccessfully) to chat up the merchant's daughter and then getting rolling drunk, acting honourably throughout and generally being larger than life, so the referee awards Cogan an extra 1/2 ep in recognition of this. Cogan receives a total experience award of 2 1/2 eps, a very successful session.