Experience Tracking System

[aaclayton]

• Automatically track the experience pending from a Combat Encounter, and when Combat is concluded present the GameMaster with a dialog for awarding experience to party members.
• Allow modifying the XP amount allocated as as well as the allocation strategy to withhold present Actors or include absent Actors.
• Display party members with a notification banner when they have been awarded experience points.
• Display party members with a notification when an Actor achieves enough experience to reach the next character level.

[aaclayton]

This would be a really exciting component to develop and add to the 5e system. Hope to see progress made on this in the future!

[aaclayton]

Originally in GitLab by @JasonAlanTerry

Just some swift comments with an at a glance look at this story. Very curious as to what your philosophy on many of these things are in terms of what you expect to be modules, and what you expect to be core / system handled.

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• Display party members with a notification banner when they have been awarded experience points.
• Display party members with a notification when an Actor achieves enough experience to reach the next character level.

Flavor / UX Features which I feel do not create use-cases beyond the scope of this story. Could be implemented independently of the below features (possibly even beforehand?), will attempt to do so before EOW.

• Automatically track the experience pending from a Combat Encounter, and when Combat is concluded present the Game Master with a dialog for awarding experience to party members.

PROS:

• This allows the Combat Tracker to be used to denote when combat starts and ends.
• This aids Game Master who uses automatic EXP tracking to remember to award EXP after combat ends (oft forgot about in many other VTT’s).

-This allows the Game Maser to add a Combat Encounter to the Combat Tracker and rapidly adjust the Combat Encounter and it’s EXP worth during play.

CONS:

• This binds the Combat Tracker to automatic EXP tracking.
• This only really applies to automatic EXP tracking for Combative Encounters (Ignores Non-Combat EXP rewards/encounters)
• If the GM removes something from the Combat Tracker during Combat may be unclear that they are impacting the EXP gained at the end, (deleting dead tokens / removing clutter)

QUESTIONS:

• Does this warrant an Encounter Item type in the dnd5e system?
• Does this warrant an Encounter Log to track previously handled encounters?
• Should the Encounters Awards be tied directly to the Combat Tracker state?
• How does this create a rigid UX where Game Master’s are expected to use the system in a predefined way?
• How does this create a fluid UX where Game Master’s can incorporate the use of it and still manually adjust things as they need.

COMMENTS:

• None

• Allow modifying the XP amount allocated as well as the allocation strategy to withhold present Actors or include absent Actors.

PROS:

• The ability to grant EXP only to set actors in mass aids with tedious record-keeping.

CONS:

• N/A

QUESTIONS:

• Does this create a use-case for an ‘active party members’ list or component within the dnd5e system/core system?
• What are effective and simple ways we can flag which party members are ‘active’ and which are ‘inactive’

COMMENTS:

• If we had a method for Game Masters to add actors (player or non-player tag along) to an active party sheet this sheet could be used as a party overview, and as a method to toggle which actors will be awarded exp.