I've done my share of written stuff for my toons in ALFA, I demandz my share! My requiem for Lakshmi is worth at least 50000xps!!!I can see Loulabelle farming her way to epic levels now...
Feedback from the members on xp for Bios
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Re: Feedback from the members on xp for Bios
500-1000xp... wow, everyone wants candy these days! I remember the days when I got 50-100xp for some outside the game stuff and thought that was neat! I've done my share of written stuff for my toons in ALFA, I demandz my share! My requiem for Lakshmi is worth at least 50000xps!!!
I can see Loulabelle farming her way to epic levels now...
I've done my share of written stuff for my toons in ALFA, I demandz my share! My requiem for Lakshmi is worth at least 50000xps!!!I can see Loulabelle farming her way to epic levels now...
Formerly: Aglaril Shaelara, Faerun's unlikeliest Bladesinger
Current main: Ky - something
It’s not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who actually is in the arena, who strives violently, who errs and comes up short again and again...who if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement, but who if he fails, fails while daring greatly.-T. Roosevelt
Current main: Ky - something
It’s not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who actually is in the arena, who strives violently, who errs and comes up short again and again...who if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement, but who if he fails, fails while daring greatly.-T. Roosevelt
Re: Feedback from the members on xp for Bios
Using bio xp as an excuse to get around level 1 start sits just fine with me 
From my DMing perspective there's one requirement I'd put for a bio that gets the xp, which is to answer this question:
Your PC arrives at the point the bio ends and his IG adventure begins. Assume you have a DM who follows you and plays the world's reaction to your PC. What does your character go and do?
In other words, the useful PC's story should have a direction the PC wants to go down beyond "here's 100 lines on how my PC feels, once in game he's going to sit on his arse and wait for a DM to produce something entertaining". That means something in the setting the PC relates to, baseline as something like a faction he goes for help to get him started.
Skip this "actable initiative" demand from new players, though.
And "forum story xp" should certainly go down with levels. Actually it might be a nice idea to do some small catch up on level spreads: So your lowbie was tagging along the more experienced folks on this adventure, being generally useless. Write a story on what he learned and how he viewed this, and get some good catchup xp. And the high levels get the ego boost to be storied on about how good they are.
From my DMing perspective there's one requirement I'd put for a bio that gets the xp, which is to answer this question:
Your PC arrives at the point the bio ends and his IG adventure begins. Assume you have a DM who follows you and plays the world's reaction to your PC. What does your character go and do?
In other words, the useful PC's story should have a direction the PC wants to go down beyond "here's 100 lines on how my PC feels, once in game he's going to sit on his arse and wait for a DM to produce something entertaining". That means something in the setting the PC relates to, baseline as something like a faction he goes for help to get him started.
Skip this "actable initiative" demand from new players, though.
And "forum story xp" should certainly go down with levels. Actually it might be a nice idea to do some small catch up on level spreads: So your lowbie was tagging along the more experienced folks on this adventure, being generally useless. Write a story on what he learned and how he viewed this, and get some good catchup xp. And the high levels get the ego boost to be storied on about how good they are.