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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gus L" data-source="post: 9663293" data-attributes="member: 7045072">XP for Gold Spent is pretty traditional way to award XP, it encourages player involvement in the setting and provides a ready made way for characters to make an impact on it as well.  In an OD&D game I played back in the G+ days (Pahvelorn run by Brendan of Wonder & Wickedness and the Necropraxis blog) we used this rule, and it allowed for a lot of interesting things: fancy equipment and clothes, building monuments, researching spells, carousing, paying scouts, buying patents of nobility, hiring mercenaries, builders, and surveyors to reopen an old road and set up a toll tower. You can use the requirement to start players on the "domain game" very early.In a Swords & Sorcery game where the PCs are meant to be constantly broke wandering troublemakers, it also makes sense, though with more of a focus on carousing.</blockquote>