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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8557732" data-attributes="member: 29398">Though I've seen it done, IMO it'd be unwise of a party not to have at least one such character in its lineup.There seems little sense in asking the clanky Fighter or the clumsy Wizard to be stealthy; and information is valuable.&nbsp; Again, it'd be an unwise party that didn't use its stealth resources as info-gatherers and scouts when doing so makes sense.The &quot;xp-worthy risk&quot; lies in the very fact of being alone, without available backup, in a potentially dangerous place.&nbsp; Even if you-as-DM know it's safe the PC in the fiction doesn't; thus in the PC's eyes she's taking a risk and - one would think - she would earn some xp for that.I should note here that I view xp as being an in-setting (though abstracted, of course) measure of the PCs' on-the-job learning and experience; by doing what they do they slowly get better at what they do.You're not exactly selling me on &quot;modern D&amp;D&quot; here... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8557732, member: 29398"] Though I've seen it done, IMO it'd be unwise of a party not to have at least one such character in its lineup. There seems little sense in asking the clanky Fighter or the clumsy Wizard to be stealthy; and information is valuable. Again, it'd be an unwise party that didn't use its stealth resources as info-gatherers and scouts when doing so makes sense. The "xp-worthy risk" lies in the very fact of being alone, without available backup, in a potentially dangerous place. Even if you-as-DM know it's safe the PC in the fiction doesn't; thus in the PC's eyes she's taking a risk and - one would think - she would earn some xp for that. I should note here that I view xp as being an in-setting (though abstracted, of course) measure of the PCs' on-the-job learning and experience; by doing what they do they slowly get better at what they do. You're not exactly selling me on "modern D&D" here... :) [/QUOTE]

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