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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 6002032" data-attributes="member: 17106">Well, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/301355-do-you-use-xp.html" target="_blank">I</a> <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/197685-do-you-use-d-d-xp-system-written.html" target="_blank">have</a> <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/319196-morrus-xp.html" target="_blank">some</a>. No one knows for sure (insert generic caveat about unscientific-ness), but I feel comfortable saying XP is only used as wriitten by a minority of people. Certainly a minority of people on these boards. And close to half simply ignore it.I suppose you could look at it that way, but by that logic everyone who goes outside the ability score generation systems in the DMG is off the book, as is anyone who goes outside the wealth by level guidelines. Pretty much everybody is "outside the mechanics" in this way of thinking. That's kind of how rpg mechanics work.No more than anyone on these boards, I think.I do want a game that is better than anything we've seen (and therefore one that it has never been).It's actually a rather 4e-centric phrasing (especially given that the 3.X system is the market standard right now, albeit not necessarily with D&D on the cover). One could argue that anything other than what WotC is supporting right now is "historical" (and that anything pre-WotC is a subset of extremely historical D&D: "archaic", "heritage"?). That being said, you're right that it isn't a clear term and is not a good way of phrasing things. Point taken.I suspect every edition change involved that kind of reexamination. 4e's issues are bigger than that.I'll agree on that.</blockquote>

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