From 3d6 down the line, an OSR alternative xp system to encourage old school play.

[darjr]

Feats of Exploration - An Alternate Reward System for Old-School TTRPGs! I love how this encourages old school style of play. I can see it being easily modified to encourage other styles like horror. #dnd #ttrpg #osr

 

[Autumnal]

Can you summarize for those of us not in a position to watch videos at the moment?

 

[Quickleaf]

3d6 DTL is selling this as a pdf product: Feats of Exploration by 3d6 Down the Line
He playtested it with his group over 50 sessions of mega-dungeon crawling.

The system/guidelines add onto the normal methods of gaining XP in OSR (i.e. Monsters & Gold) with a 3rd option: Exploring the Campaign Environment.

It has a slight dungeon-crawling focus, so you can get XP for things like Apply lore in a useful or flavorful manner, Exploring 5 areas of a dungeon level, Solving a puzzle, Overcoming a trap, Using equipment/abilities in an unorthodox but useful manner, Manipulate/cripple a faction to your benefit, Establish a safe haven, etc. He provides some examples of how you might adjust this list for a certain setting or milieu.

Award values are a % of Total XP Needed to Advance a Level, e.g. from Minor 2% to the extremely rare Campaign 15%.

 

[Autumnal]

Interesting! Thanks.

 

[Mannahnin]

3d6 DTL is selling this as a pdf product: Feats of Exploration by 3d6 Down the Line
He playtested it with his group over 50 sessions of mega-dungeon crawling.

The system/guidelines add onto the normal methods of gaining XP in OSR (i.e. Monsters & Gold) with a 3rd option: Exploring the Campaign Environment.

It has a slight dungeon-crawling focus, so you can get XP for things like Apply lore in a useful or flavorful manner, Exploring 5 areas of a dungeon level, Solving a puzzle, Overcoming a trap, Using equipment/abilities in an unorthodox but useful manner, Manipulate/cripple a faction to your benefit, Establish a safe haven, etc. He provides some examples of how you might adjust this list for a certain setting or milieu.

Award values are a % of Total XP Needed to Advance a Level, e.g. from Minor 2% to the extremely rare Campaign 15%.

This reminds me of something Jeff Rients was talking about in 2009, but more granular.

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[Shardstone]

Honestly, I think this is better for the OSR-style then gold-as-xp.

 

[AMP]

How have I never thought of this before?! This is a great idea. I was just wondering to myself how to best encourage exploration as a game goal and this solves it.