Level Up (A5E) You don't hate exploration, you hate survival

[FrogReaver]

Like I said, it's up to the DM. I adapted the rewards from 2e and other sources myself. Heck, if you like milestone, use milestone. It's certainly easier. I just don't like it personally.

Thats fine, but I’m asking is there any support in 5e or A5e for implementing such a system.

 

[SteveC]

Gold for XP didn't disappear in 2e, it was made optional. It's still right there in the book.

I figured someone would remember it. I just recalled the special XP awards by class and Thieves got a special award for it. 1E and early 2E sort of blur together after all this time for me. Thanks!

 

[Xethreau]

Gold for XP didn't disappear in 2e, it was made optional. It's still right there in the book.

That's news to me! Can I get a page number?

 

[Micah Sweet]

That's news to me! Can I get a page number?

2e's Experience chapter is in the DMG, pages 45-49. Lots of great advice for non-combat XP rewards in there. There is a small sidebar on page 47 that offers gold for XP as an option.

 

[Xethreau]

2e's Experience chapter is in the DMG, pages 45-49. Lots of great advice for non-combat XP rewards in there. There is a small sidebar on page 47 that offers gold for XP as an option.

I thought you were saying that it was in 5e somewhere.

[edit] So I feel like the point by @FrogReaver about guidance for those rules in 5e still applies.

And for some reason when I heard the phrase "didn't dissapear in 2e," I thought you meant that it was preprinted and accomodated for 5e somehow. Please keep in mind that some of us were never formed in the 2e ruleset in the first place and aren't moving forward with that knowledge. For us it certianly has dissapeared.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I thought you were saying that it was in 5e somewhere.

No, but there's no reason you can't use it just fine in 5e. 1gp=1xp. I don't confine myself to what's in any given book.

 

[Xethreau]

I don't confine myself to what's in any given book.

I hope you can see how that inheres a non-normative perspective.

[edit] And how the point by @PJ Coffey inheres the normative perspective as expressed by 5e's designers, that killing monsters is how you get XP.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I hope you can see how that inheres a non-normative perspective.

[edit] And how the point by @PJ Coffey inheres the normative perspective as expressed by 5e's designers, that killing monsters is how you get XP.

I don't see the value of a normative perspective here, as it is far too limiting to be useful to me.

 

[Xethreau]

I don't see the value of a normative perspective here, as it is far too limiting to be useful to me.

This thread exists to be helpful to more people than those as enlightened as yourself, including those [edit] mainly familiar with 5e/A5E as presented.

 

[Micah Sweet]

This thread exists to be helpful to more people than those as enlightened as yourself, including those [edit] mainly familiar with 5e/A5E as presented.

If you're going to assume everyone you're talking to is solely interested in WotC 5e, and no other material need apply, you're going to have to call that out. I refuse to assume it.