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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5464642" data-attributes="member: 54877">I stopped using XP as written after about the first three years with 3E. Never went back. As near as I can tell, the only reason to use XP as written in our group is to handle characters leveling at a different rate. Since we don't want that, using it as written is counter-productive.&nbsp;In 3E, we replaced the level drain with a variant of the temporary level loss that was floating around on the web. Since we were playing Arcana Evolved, we replaced the magic item XP component with a combination of Hero Points and GM fiat. (One Hero Point and Scribe Scroll let you scribe a whole bunch of scrolls.) Worked fine for us.&nbsp;We found giving out Hero Points as individual rewards was sufficient to scratch that itch. In 4E, I do something similar with action points.&nbsp;I do keep a rough total of XP for pacing purposes, but it really doesn't matter whether or not the players ever see it.&nbsp; (Sometimes they do; sometimes they don't.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5464642, member: 54877"] I stopped using XP as written after about the first three years with 3E. Never went back. As near as I can tell, the only reason to use XP as written in our group is to handle characters leveling at a different rate. Since we don't want that, using it as written is counter-productive. In 3E, we replaced the level drain with a variant of the temporary level loss that was floating around on the web. Since we were playing Arcana Evolved, we replaced the magic item XP component with a combination of Hero Points and GM fiat. (One Hero Point and Scribe Scroll let you scribe a whole bunch of scrolls.) Worked fine for us. We found giving out Hero Points as individual rewards was sufficient to scratch that itch. In 4E, I do something similar with action points. I do keep a rough total of XP for pacing purposes, but it really doesn't matter whether or not the players ever see it. (Sometimes they do; sometimes they don't.) [/QUOTE]

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