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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 6087064" data-attributes="member: 36160">The thing is, that's actually a pretty easy quest-y trap to fall into as a DM, and has little to do with this idea.Fetch quests.Find the seven parts of the eponymous Rod. The only difference is that there are cool adventures around the Rod, but wolves should by rights be everywhere.Ideas that sound grindy might actually be grindy, but don't knock the idea because of one implementation!One thought on this area: goals are important (players knowing what behavior earns power-ups), but so is spontaneous recognition of awesome.Pretend these deeds are no longer represented by cards, but that instead that there are a store of experience points -- coins or chips -- in the center of the table.Whenever any player or the DM judges someone's done something awesome, they can hand that guy an experience point (from the central store).The DM can seed the basket in proportion to the scale of difficulties the players face, adding coins as the night goes on.At the end of the night, the lowest leveled player(s) with the most experience points level up (or get noted as being "halfway to the next level" or whatever, to slow the actual rate of advancement).Something like gaining a level costs three coins for the lowest level character in the party, six for the next highest, nine for the third, and so on. Numbers completely made up.Advantage: less hard-coded, more spontaneity, no rat-fetches.Disadvantage: pretty game-able by the players, punishes inter-party-strife if the players don't maintain some separation.On the other hand, that's encoding the social disapproval the player pulling that on an unfriendly audience should be feeling, so maybe that's a good thing!</blockquote>

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