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I don't see how a veteran's portal/hardcore mode would in any way contribute to either an increase or decrease in the quality of the characters being made by players. Its just an option for veteran players who are confident in themselves to quickly get into the mix without needing to invest exorbitant amounts of IRL time they do not have or cannot spare to quest extensively.

Stoneskin and blur aren't disguises, by the way. They never have been. They can -assist- a bit, in combination with other disguise measures. That is all.

DeadBoondoggle's post is one of the few that made any real sense.

Current implementation is sort of terrible, yes. I agree with a boost to this skill!

It is just as easy for DMs to scale the reward than not. So there is zero reason not to do it.

Nobody yet has offered a single logical reason why L9+ PCs should advance by weeks and low level PCs advance by hours with this reward. Repeating phrases like "GRINCH" and "SCROOGE" and '"BE THANKFUL!" are not very intelligent comments.

Well obviously I appreciate the thought; that's not the issue. The issue is that it benefits people with high level characters much more.

I understand this is a benevolent and kindly gesture from the DM Team to the playerbase, and also understand the added benefit of having people online over the holidays, which of course attracts more people online.

I see this measure really disproportionately rewarding longevity more than anything else. I think at the least this XP bonus should be scaled to level ranges. As it is, 2K XP to a L5 is about two hours of questing (usually much less) while 2K XP to a L9+ PC represents weeks of advancement. Surely we can see the inherent problem here?

I think something like...

- L2-6, 2K XP
- L7, 1500 XP
- L8, 1K XP
- L9+, 500 XP

would be alot better than just a flat 2000 XP for any PC.