u/hornybutired

Barrier Peaks contains very little in the way gold-piece-value treasure; a great deal of the "treasure" comes in the form of advanced technology that the PCs can exploit. But considering that something like 80% of experience on average comes from the gold-piece-value of treasure (if you're running experience by the book, and I do), this means that Barrier Peaks yields very little experience, especially considering the levels of the characters that will be undertaking the adventure. What do you think would be an appropriate amount of experience to award for completing it? I'm leaning toward "enough for a 10th level fighter to make 11th level" or something like that, but I'd like other input.

I'm just getting into the game and I've united Ireland with a custom character and a start date of 1066. I don't feel confident in going to war to conquer Alba or England, so I'm not sure what to do with all my gold and stuff now. Work on building up my territory? Pardon a noob for asking, but what should I do next?

No, I can't help you - you blew off the final. What did you think would happen?

My record, though, is someone emailing me three months after the final grades for that semester to see if they could turn in all the work they'd flaked on. What's your most flabbergasting post-semester plea?

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A STEM kid in my history and philosophy of science class has been ranting over email all semester that my class doesn't "build on itself."

(He's also complained that I don't give the students my notes... for the open-notes tests)

The class is structured to trace the debate between realism and instrumentalism from Aristotle/Ptolemy all the way into the modern era. Every time we talk about a major thinker, we talk about how their ideas fit into that discussion, and we also talk about how their ideas are often just responses to some earlier thinker.

But the class doesn't "build on itself."

Is this a STEM thing that I don't get? What the hell is this kid talking about? And what's your favorite nonsensical complaint about your teaching? Tis the season, after all.