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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7517778" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>It absolutely is true. I've played with people who couldn't care less about experience points. Level was meaningless to them as they only cared about exploring character and interacting with the world in ways that helped them explore their character, and roleplay. Level 1 was the same as level 5, which was the same as level 20 to them. Level is only has meaning if players give it meaning. Same with race and class. There is no race and class that has meaning unless players give them meaning. I don't play small races or bards. They have no relevance or meaning to me. I give meaning to humans, elves and half-elves. The only difference between those and gold, is that it's even easier give those things meaning than it is to give gold meaning.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You haven't given me any reason other than "It's on the players instead of the DM." That doesn't mean squat as to whether it's trivially easy or not. I don't even have to make an effort to spend gold. I know what my PCs want and I use gold to get me there. It's trivial. I suppose if you're a reactive player and not a proactive one, and you need the DM to prod you in order to do anything in the game, it would be more difficult, but even then not by much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 7517778, member: 23751"] It absolutely is true. I've played with people who couldn't care less about experience points. Level was meaningless to them as they only cared about exploring character and interacting with the world in ways that helped them explore their character, and roleplay. Level 1 was the same as level 5, which was the same as level 20 to them. Level is only has meaning if players give it meaning. Same with race and class. There is no race and class that has meaning unless players give them meaning. I don't play small races or bards. They have no relevance or meaning to me. I give meaning to humans, elves and half-elves. The only difference between those and gold, is that it's even easier give those things meaning than it is to give gold meaning. You haven't given me any reason other than "It's on the players instead of the DM." That doesn't mean squat as to whether it's trivially easy or not. I don't even have to make an effort to spend gold. I know what my PCs want and I use gold to get me there. It's trivial. I suppose if you're a reactive player and not a proactive one, and you need the DM to prod you in order to do anything in the game, it would be more difficult, but even then not by much. [/QUOTE]
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