In fact, as I have played over the years and created house rules and different ways to handle things, I sometimes forget what the actual rules are as written.

There was also experience awarded for magic items and gold piece value that my group over the years never paid much attention to.

Case in point is the aforementioned Top Secret (TSR) system which I still cannot really wrap my head around.įor AD&D 1E, the awarding of experience almost exclusively revolved around values for slain monsters or opponents. That is not to say that some rules systems do a better job than others when offering guidelines or rules around how it should or is recommended to be done. I have also written a GM adventure for an upcoming Elder Tunnels and begun running a MSPE campaign for the boy, converting our Top Secret characters.Īwarding experience has always been a rather arbitrary process no matter what system you run. Between the various online sessions via Google+, local conventions, and Troll Hoots, I have played more T&T than really any other game as of late. I guess I am not so much 'converting' to T&T anymore, at least not from the player side of things. (I originally started writing these 'Converting' posts regarding some of the issues/topics that would spring to mind as I started getting a bit more involved with T&T as opposed to what I have been playing pretty much my entire life, which is some form of AD&D 1E and 2E.)

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