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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5859730" data-attributes="member: 22424">I think there's a lot of truth in this. In fact, I'm really starting to question the need for a new edition at all - it seems to me that they're just going to give us another slightly different way to do what we can already do anyway. For those of us who are already gamers, I'm inclined to think applying some serious thought to adventure design may well be more beneficial.I don't like it. If nothing else, what award to you give out if the PCs do something the DM/writer didn't think of?More to the point, though, I don't think it's necessary to give out different awards for different solutions. I would argue that they'd get much the same effect if they just gave XP for "overcoming challenges", and made it very clear that that included using stealth and diplomacy. This is another area where the 3e DMG said the right things... but the published adventures just assumed that every monster was there to be fought and all challenges were to be overcome with a sword.</blockquote>