House Rules

Milestone-ish Experience

At the end of each session, each character is granted a base experience award of 1 xp per hour of the session. Then the following questions will be asked. Each ‘yes’ earns one bonus xp.

• Did you learn something important about the world?
• Did you defeat a notable enemy?
• Did you find any particularly sweet loot?
• Did you accomplish a worthy goal?

The DM is free to ask you to elaborate to justify the reward. Also, what qualifies as a notable challenge or sweet loot varies as you go up in level. Killing a few orcs and finding a handful of gold and gems would qualify at first level, not so much at 10th.

Experience Required Per Level

Level	Total XP Required
1st	0
2nd	6
3rd	13
4th	27
5th	43
6th	61
7th	81
8th	103
9th	127
10th	151
11th	175
12th	200

Each level after 12th requires an additional 25 xp, but I’ve never had a game get that high before so I’m not going to bother writing out the whole table.

Group Initiative

Instead of rolling initiative at the start of each fight, combat phases are divided into the Player Phase and the DM Phase. During the player phase, any PCs and any NPC alliesunder the player’s direct control take their actions in whatever order they wish. During the DM phase, any other NPCs and any PCs controlled by the DM (because of charm, etc) act. Unless the PCs are surprised, the Player Phase happens first.

Resting

Short Rests are easy to come by. PCs may take a short rest by sitting and catching their breath for 5-10 minutes as long as they are out of danger. Long Rests, however, are much more restricted. A long rest requires that the party be in civilization (a village, town, or city) or an otherwise secluded sanctum (a remote farm, a druidic glen, a fortified tower, etc.). Rests take one week (or 2d6 days), and cost some amount of money depending on the character’s level. This cost represents the cost of food, lodging, medicine, maintaining equipment, and replenishing ammunition and spell components. It also represents money lost to activities necessary to improve morale, such as carousing, gifts to family or lovers, gambling, charity, and so on. The cost is shown in the table below. The cost is waived if the PCs own a stronghold and are resting there.

Resting Costs

Level	Cost per Character
1-4	1d6 gp
5-10	1d6 x 5 gp
11-16	1d6 x 25 gp
17-20	1d6 x 100 gp