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<blockquote data-quote="Pickles JG" data-source="post: 5935064" data-attributes="member: 61501">I went through this process myself a looong time ago. I gave up D&amp;D at 15 in 1981 as it was dumb. HP made no sense XP for treasure made no sense &amp; levelling by killing orcs took too long. Clerical healing &amp; all the D&amp;Disms made the game quite unlike any of the fiction we wanted to emulate (Lankhmar mostly in my case) &nbsp;We played Runequest as that was reallistic<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm&nbsp; &nbsp; :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /> (plus the setting was imaginative &amp; tied in to the mechanics).&nbsp;When I was 17 I payed in a big AD&amp;D campaign with the RAW (plus more detailed encumbrance rules for god knows what reason). It was great played on its own merits as a game. We did not really get the safe loot &gt; monster bashing though as we liked fighting. It was also fairly divisive - thiefs keeping things to themselves to get them more XP being an issue. It fell apart after some party members sneaked off to loot a huge gem PHB cover style to get an XP leg up on the rest of the party (not my finest hour...)&nbsp;Anyway different ways of gaining XP as certainly an easy painless &amp; simple thing to modularise &amp; could be used to enourage different plays styles. My current XP &quot;when I feel like giving it out&quot; system would be hard to beat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pickles JG, post: 5935064, member: 61501"] I went through this process myself a looong time ago. I gave up D&D at 15 in 1981 as it was dumb. HP made no sense XP for treasure made no sense & levelling by killing orcs took too long. Clerical healing & all the D&Disms made the game quite unlike any of the fiction we wanted to emulate (Lankhmar mostly in my case) We played Runequest as that was reallistic:erm: (plus the setting was imaginative & tied in to the mechanics). When I was 17 I payed in a big AD&D campaign with the RAW (plus more detailed encumbrance rules for god knows what reason). It was great played on its own merits as a game. We did not really get the safe loot > monster bashing though as we liked fighting. It was also fairly divisive - thiefs keeping things to themselves to get them more XP being an issue. It fell apart after some party members sneaked off to loot a huge gem PHB cover style to get an XP leg up on the rest of the party (not my finest hour...) Anyway different ways of gaining XP as certainly an easy painless & simple thing to modularise & could be used to enourage different plays styles. My current XP "when I feel like giving it out" system would be hard to beat. [/QUOTE]

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