Other than bond resolution, do your DW games include XP rewards at session end?
Other than bond resolution, do your DW games include XP rewards at session end?
Other than bond resolution, do your DW games include XP rewards at session end?
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Yep, if the PCs also fulfilled their alignment and answered the End of Session questions.
Sort of. If I’m running a one-shot, we’ll do XP so the players can see how much XP they earned. For an ongoing campaign, though, I often prefer to do a “level up after the adventure or when story-appropriate” style of advancement.
I don’t know how I missed those questions when I went looking for them; thanks, Misha. 🙂
No problem! Also, don’t forget PCs get to mark XP anytime they trigger a move and miss (6-). With that, I usually have players mark XP on the spot rather than waiting to the end.
I don’t use any XP except the manual’s methods: End of Session questions (up to 3 per session), Alignment (up to 1 per session), Bond (up to 1 per session), and failed rolls (no limit).
We do the three questions and I remind them about alignment and bond resolution.
I’m to the point now, with my Fighter, that i bank more XP at the end of session than i do during gameplay (+3 Dex, +3 Str makes it pretty easy to Hit my way through a session). And those questions are pretty well designed. It’s hard for us to play a session where we don’t at least learn something new/interesting about the world.
I had my Players demand that I, The DM, marked XP once ^^ and I have twice given out one XP for some truly outstanding play. But it is not a thing I do one a regular basis nor is it something my players are counting on.
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