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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thedungeondelver" data-source="post: 5779125" data-attributes="member: 34865">XP is book-keeping; you're not doing it mid-stride in combat or while you're talking to the king about saving the castle.  How does having the same charts for the same classes.That game is not D&D.How does taking options away make a game better?  (It doesn't.)Ultimately though we're all going to get more or less what we want; does that bother you?  If so, why?  Are you concerned that 3e players, 2e fans, AD&Ders like myself and so on will have an outlet in a new edition of D&D?I mean, speaking for myself, honestly if there's a section on running a stat-less XP-less version of the game, well, that's fine too I guess.  But it shouldn't be to the exclusion of all else.Fortunately, I think Misters Cook & Mearles are smart enough to not do that! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>