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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1568295" data-attributes="member: 813">It's in the DMG. The DMG grants xp to characters who overcome challenges. Commoners overcome challenges by just living their normal life. Most NPC challanges are on the 1/20 - 1/10 CR level. Thus, a challenge for a 1st level commoner will yield 15-30 xp per challenge overcome. Takes a long time to level unless they take on stronger challenges. (Or life throws them hard challenges, depending on how you look at it.)Imagine the farmer bringing his goods to market. Sounds like a 1/10 CR challenge to me. If he gets the goods there on time he'll get 30 xp. If they area is highly civilized that might drop to a 1/15 CR. Or maybe there's a harvast problem that means he has to push his mule cart hard to get the best market price. Those are experiences that will eventuall get him up to 2nd level.Just because most PCs gain xp through monster challenges doesn't invalidate the system. I can't understand people who complain about the lack of xp awards for roleplay. Just call the various npcs whom the pcs must interact with challenges and give them a CR for "defeating". Need to get the informant to talk, perhaps he's a CR 5 information source. Need to get the prince to fund your exploration expedition, call that overcoming a CR 8.SKR's article is similar to the above, but he makes more of a system out of it, IIRC.</blockquote>