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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 1452930" data-attributes="member: 14403">If I remember correctly the recommended XP bonus for Role-Playing in the 3.5 DMG is 50XP/Character Level.  So a first level character that was roleplayed well should then get 50 XP.  Now, if a 4 PC party goes out and fights a CR 1 creature that is good for 300XP split 4 ways for 75 each.  Of course how often does a party face only one creature with a CR equal to the party average?  Not too often in my campaigns or in any published adventure that I've read for that matter.  Also how often do you have only one encounter with one creature at the CR of the party average in one game session.  A good roleplayer of a 1st level character only gets 50 xp for roleplaying the entire session, guess where the rest of his XP comes from... combat.Now obviously in anyone's campaign they can grant more XP for roleplaying and that is fine.  My point is that the rules as written favor advancement through combat which makes combat ability the measure for character class balance.Wedgeski, I don't think anyone is wrong... there are merely differences of opinion.  My opinion is that as written, D&D favors a combat based game. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>