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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 7030458" data-attributes="member: 6701872">I went through the same thing, but with the added downside of the thing that prompted the change being that I noticed one player that wasn't just fishing for his own bonus experience, but was upset enough by an instance of not getting it that he then stopped someone else getting their bonus.To elaborate, because that sounds confusing to me and I am sure I know what I meant: We were playing AD&D 2nd and using the optional individual rewards. The guy playing a cleric tried to gain some bonus XP by casting an entangle spell on a group of enemies the party was facing, but I pointed out that the spell wasn't furthering the cleric's ethos in any way so it didn't qualify for the bonus... and then the cleric player, obviously upset, brings up "...but then the fighter doesn't get his bonus XP for defeating monsters because I helped him with the entangle, right?"Yeah, the CoDzilla build is an example of that kind of tier 1 character I think - I've let that stuff slip my mind because I didn't have much use for it beyond that it highlighted things I already knew about the system at the time, and even my players during that era that would have wanted to know and use those kind of CharOp details didn't because they never went looking online, and never managed to figure it out for themselves.</blockquote>