Hey just wanted to give an opinion on handing this out given the bruhaha on the battlefield. First let me say that people shouldn't be silly and pitch a fit if they don't get enough or whatever. That's number 1.

That said, I would personally prefer it if an immortal who didn't like my role that much would just ignore it and not hand out a small amount of exp. I.e. if you think my role is only worth 500 exp, I'd rather wait a while longer and hope that someone else thinks it's worth the 1500 or so. As far as I can tell, if someone has already been rewarded for a background role, it doesn't really get looked at again. Nobody is going to read it and say "Oh, I see Borkhad read it, but I know he doesn't really like long roles, so I'll drop another 1.5k on it because I'm the kind of person that likes big roles."

This is especially true when it comes to longer "epic" type roles. I totally understand that some people don't want to read a backstory that wastes words on things that aren't 100% relevant to the character's current state. But I do tend to go for subtle effects of past experiences, which may just be a waste of effort, but to me help flesh out the character and make it more interesting. I'll probably start including a "how these experience affect things" that accompanies the story to help out those who aren't keen on narratives.

Anyhow, it's totally cool with me if you don't personally think my role is worth more than 500 exp... that won't offend me. However, if you think my role is just okay, I would prefer to wait for one of the people that might appreciate it more do the rewarding. And if my role really isn't worth more than 500 to anyone, then that's okay, I don't feel entitled to any reward at all. But I've had immortals send me tells saying "that's a great role" so I know some people appreciate them, and I would just prefer not to lose the opportunity to have those people be the ones taking notice.

Let me reinforce again that I appreciate the effort an immortal puts into reading roles. If roles gave out no exp at all, I would still write them for my own RPing benefit and for the entertainment of the imms that do like that sort of thing. To some extent, I feel like writing stories for my characters is something I can do to make the immortal experience more fun. Maybe not everyone is into long roles, or maybe my writing isn't good enough for some people (and I can accept that), but as long as it seems like some people are enjoying them it's worth it to me.