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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bayushi_seikuro" data-source="post: 9491889" data-attributes="member: 7024851">As someone who, in 3.x, fell behind fairly rapidly because of massive item creation, XP imbalance can be bad.  It was worse in my situation where I was outfitting one guy who had to pull the whole party (2 PCs, 1 DM, no cups <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )I get the want for XP.  It's handy.  But I feel gaming systems have moved to more of a story-beat situation moreso than an XP.    I mean, you look at 1e, where 2000 XP put different classes at different power levels.If we're going to have XP, I'd like to see a system like Gangbusters (TSR), where when you levelled, you got to 'spend' an equivalent amount of XP buying what were essentially feats like combat driving or lockpicking.  Then again, THAT system, if you've never seen it, would let you make J Jonah Jameson as a PC and get XP for slandering people or writing and publishing 'yellow journalism'.</blockquote>