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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AFGNCAAP" data-source="post: 3269017" data-attributes="member: 871">Regarding the OP:I personally prefer the new XP progression chart rather than the vastly diverse XP charts per class of the earlier editions.  I'd hate to see the current version of D&D, with the base classes, prestige classes, monsters, & the like, all have their own XP progression table.  It would be, IMHO, a nightmare to manage (esp. in regards to multiclassing).  Also, how would Level Adjustments work?  How would templates work?  These two parts of the new system are a big boon to the game as well, & they're built upon the current XP mechanic.IMHO, the new XP method (& multiclassing system) allows & accounts for something that the older system couldn't do (without DM fiat, IMHO): build diverse characters, esp. ones based off of characters from books (who didn't alwas stay the course as a warrior or rogue or the like).  I couldn't see a character like Conan progress as a fighter and a thief as he did (as he was statted out in the AD&D Conan modules) along the same lines as any other dual-classed fighter/thief would in AD&D.  Or, for an earlier example, I couldn't see Conan progress at all like Gygax statted him up as in an early issue of the Dragon (where he advanced both as a fighter and thief) in the earlier editions (then again, there was level regression, but that's another discussion point).Well, that's just MHO.</blockquote>