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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 6555893" data-attributes="member: 467"><p>Part of the problem for me with arbitrary leveling and story awards is that those things presuppose a story or plot in the game, when it is my contention that story is what emerges from play, not what drives it. That's not to say you can only give XP for for killing things and taking their stuff. The things you reward XP for are, IMO, the things you are asking your players to engage in. If you give XP for treasure, you are asking them to make acquiring the gold their #1 objective with everything else, including killing stuff, a secondary goal. if you give XP for finishing small quests around NPCs and other setting elements, you are asking them to interact with the world and focus on problem solving. If you give them XP for just showing up, then you are asking them to just show up.</p></blockquote><p></p>