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Character Creation: Experience Points

All characters in Nightfall start with 120 xp, plus 3xp for every month since the start of the chronicle, with a further 10 xp being available for submission of a suitable character background including some basic hooks that the ST can use to tie in plot to the character. Currently this is 249xp, not including character background xp or any gained from flaws.

Characters can potentially earn up to three lots of experience points per month – for attendance by that character at a game, or for a downtime submission. Experience progression continues as below:

First Monthly Action	Second Monthly Action	Third Monthly Action
4 xp	3 xp	1 xp

NPCs, ASTs, and STs receive an experience "pip" as if they had attended the game in question, which may either be saved for a future character or used for a “pip” for a character from another venue that month.

STs that save experience also receive an experience pip to assign to either option as long as their downtime returns are completed on time. ASTs may also receive this experience if they are required to do downtime returns, as may long term NPCs requested to submit downtimes for their NPC.

Non-Storyteller society positions, such as the committee, may gain experience in a similar manner to a Storyteller.

The third monthly action slot may also occasionally be granted to those who have done something to significantly assist the running of the games, such as acting as game coordinator for a day, providing props for an event, catering for the games, etc.

Due to rising starting xp having an effect on how these pips would allocated for future characters, each pip saved for a future character is worth an extra 2xp towards a new character, to the maximum possible xp in the game at that time. Currently this is 481xp, including character background and maximum flaws, so up to 215 bonus xp may be applied to a new character from this method.