Your character will receive Experience Points (XP) at REFUGE LARP events which they can subsequently use to buy Skills. Each Skill you purchase costs a certain number of XP as per the Skill Charts below.

A Character’s level is strictly an OOG concept; a character doesn’t understand that they have a “level” IG, although the player knows this information. Staff members use levels to balance combat encounters and for calculating treasure for an event.

XP (XP) are cumulative and never “go away”. You can spend as many or as few as you wish at a time. Your character’s Body Points are calculated based on your total XP, whether spent or not, as is your Character Level.

A character will gain XP for every LP they attend. This chart will show you how many XP you will attain for each LP you attend. As your character attains higher levels, it takes longer to gain XP.

For Example: A new character has 25 XP and attends a 3-day Long Weekend game. After the event, the chapter staff applies 3 experience blankets to the character, one for each LP of the event.

Since the character is 2nd level, the first blanket gains them 6 XP putting them at 31 total. Now that they are at 3rd level (over 30 XP), they gain 5 for the second blanket, and another 5 for the third blanket, leaving them with 41 XP total – 4th level.

These experience point additions are always applied one by one no matter how many are gained at an event, with subsequent additions adjusting the Experience Point rate if the previous one puts the character into a new level range. Note that a character may have fractional XP at certain points in their career depending on their level; only whole XP may be spent on Skills. The fractional XP simply track how far your character has to the next Experience Point.

All classes start off at 25 XP with 10 Body Points. Your total XP determines your Body Points at a ratio based on your class; see the Classes section for details.