My mom makes these bierocks. I make just the filling (they’re good without the cheese, too, if anyone’s got insides that hate milk sugars or proteins).

There are less kiddie bierock recipes out there, too, if ketchup doesn’t appeal.

https://www.food.com/recipe/stuffed-hamburger-cabbage-buns-runzas-or-bierocks-50809

@[email protected] Rules light systems are kind of weird in this framework, aren’t they? Especially micro systems, like one-pagers. Being rules light and short on page space, they trust their audience to not rules lawyering munchkins, and many just go straight to describing the mechanics (well, that and the premise/ of course).

But they’re obviously fiction-first games.

It’s the crunchy games where things seem to get… frustrating, with many people reading them through a mechanics-first lens, and then asking over and over again “why does X work like this”? Or “why does Y even exist when it’s not as good as Z? Who would ever pick that?” Entire player cohorts ignore the idea that designers create the rules and options to support a fiction.

I haven’t played many rules-light games, but I’ve never personally seen this behavioir from those players. I’ld love to hear some horror stories to gain some perspective, though.

Doesn’t look like it.

I wonder if it works for //lemmy.world?

Posts seem to be landing on lemmy.ca just fine now. My account there can’t see them, though. Wild.

Hmm. Something seems a little out of wack, as XP doubles every 2 levels, but you’re scaling things linearly here. One Level 1 creature is worth 40 XP to a combat vs a group of 4 Level 1 PCs, so things work out here. But a Level 2 creature is worth 60 XP, not 80, and 60 * 4 = 240, not 320.

If you’re indexing the creature XP to Level 1, the XP curve looks like this (where Approx XP uses a 240 baseline for Level 2 as they do in the books, and XP is using exact scaling):

Using Level 1 indexed XP (let’s call it XP_1, for the sake of brevity), your example above becomes 560 XP shared between either 4 equally levelled characters (140 XP) or 3 unequally levelled ones, with it being unclear how exactly to divvy up the reward.

I’m not convinced your use of level as weight works, due to the fact that level power does not scale linearly. Instead, I would look to the players’ contribution to the party’s XP pool. PCs have an encounter XP budget that’s the same as monsters’, by level, which means the mixed party has 160+240+240 = 640 XP between them. The Level 1 character contributes 160/640 = 0.25, or 1/4 of the party’s XP, so they should probably receive 1/4 of the XP reward.

560 * 0.25 = 140 XP, which is what they would get if it was a party of 4 Level 1 PCs.

The other two characters each contribute 37.5% of the party’s XP, so they would each receive 560 * 0.375 = 210 XP, which would scale to 150 XP in the standard rolling XP window.

I’ve been kicking this math around for a while now on scrap paper. There’s been a small spike in questions around XP and balance over on r/Pathfinder2e, though, so maybe I’ll work through his a little and make it a little more accessible/searchable.