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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7427007" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>I think your confusing how I view XP. I put the horse first, the cart second so to speak. The horse is encounters, the cart is XP. Yes, sometimes PC's motivation is to become the greatest swordsman in all the world and the only way to do that is to fight a lot. Some PCs are adreniline junkies that always want to push themselves to the extreme to prove that they can to it.</p><p></p><p>Others? Others are just doing what's necessary. The fact that they slowly get better at it is icing on the cake, not the motivation. My AL character recently leveled up, his motivation to fight wasn't to gain that level. His motivation was to stop those gosh darn cultists (isn't is always cultists?) from destroying the world. Other characters have been motivated to collect bright shiny things, like gold and gems. Some have been motivated by increasing their skill enough to finally confront the man who killed his mother and kidnapped his sister.</p><p></p><p>Different characters have different motivations.</p><p></p><p>As an aside, this wouldn't work for my personal campaign because I don't use XP based advancement. As part of my session 0 we discuss how quickly people want to level and then I do it when it makes sense for the story (kind-of-sort-of milestone leveling). But it still wouldn't be my preference in an XP based game because the conversation "If we do one more encounter we get more XP" would inevitably arise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7427007, member: 6801845"] I think your confusing how I view XP. I put the horse first, the cart second so to speak. The horse is encounters, the cart is XP. Yes, sometimes PC's motivation is to become the greatest swordsman in all the world and the only way to do that is to fight a lot. Some PCs are adreniline junkies that always want to push themselves to the extreme to prove that they can to it. Others? Others are just doing what's necessary. The fact that they slowly get better at it is icing on the cake, not the motivation. My AL character recently leveled up, his motivation to fight wasn't to gain that level. His motivation was to stop those gosh darn cultists (isn't is always cultists?) from destroying the world. Other characters have been motivated to collect bright shiny things, like gold and gems. Some have been motivated by increasing their skill enough to finally confront the man who killed his mother and kidnapped his sister. Different characters have different motivations. As an aside, this wouldn't work for my personal campaign because I don't use XP based advancement. As part of my session 0 we discuss how quickly people want to level and then I do it when it makes sense for the story (kind-of-sort-of milestone leveling). But it still wouldn't be my preference in an XP based game because the conversation "If we do one more encounter we get more XP" would inevitably arise. [/QUOTE]
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