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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadzar" data-source="post: 5460965" data-attributes="member: 6667746">I think this hits a nail on the head for skill challenges in what some might view as making the system popular or not. I enjoy giving "role-playing" XP, but am not going to design it into specific places.My "role-playing" XP if from the players entertaining me by coming up with this such as "how to seal a demon without using a PC sacrifice to do so". So I reward for the creativity and use of the character, its abilities, etc that entertain me and come up with ideas beyond what I might have come up with as a DM.So depending on where you want to be awarded with or to award XP, might have the skill challenges play a part that I haven't been able to put into words yet until what you just said. One of those "feelings" you cannot describe, but you nailed it for me.Which is probably why I would only use such as a resolution mechanic and use my own devices to award the "special" XP for all instances based on me, rather than the game. Be it coming up with a solution I didn't think of to some "puzzle", doing something the other players found very rewarding, etc; the DM XP rewards that are not present int he book. I still want to be able to award those where I want to give them, not be dictated in some fashion/system how to award them.Likewise, I don't want just the set of XP defined in the book, or I would be playing a constrained and coded MMO that can ONLY offer those XP it is coded for. The reason I have a DM to decide things beyond the code and out of the box, that we can challenge each others imagination and "skills" with.</blockquote>

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