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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7912140" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>I think this is a pretty sound analysis, but I would suggest that the numbers might mean something to the players. The human brain finds it very satisfying to watch numbers go up or progress bars fill. So while removing the exp may not have changed anything for you as a DM, except cutting out the middleman and lightening your workload, it may have changed something for your players. And they may not even have been consciously aware of the change. But whether they realized it or not, they lost that progress bar in the change. They no longer have that numeric representation of how close or far they are to the next level-up. And some players - I’d wager most players, won’t see that as any great loss. The worload it saves you might greatly outweigh the visceral satisfaction they lose in the exchange - that will vary a lot from one player to the next. But I think a lot of DMs run this same analysis and come to the same conclusion that nothing is lost in getting rid of XP, forgetting that it does have a meaningful, if subtle, cost to the players.</p></blockquote><p></p>