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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 8081859" data-attributes="member: 99786">XP is a great way to incentive certain behavior. When 1XP=1GP, the game was all about amassing treasure. When things changed and CR -> XP, then it was all about killing monsters. I liked 4e, in that there was a system for non-combat encounters to assign XP. The system itself wasn't great, but it was pretty good.I use XP at the encounter scale, as opposed to the entire adventure scale (which is what I feel like milestone advancement is).Milestone advancement doesn't work in Sandbox, imo. The milestones aren't well defined, so your players wander around. I guess maybe if it's discussed in Session 0 and expectations are set that there's not really an overarching story to discover, then that's ok. But if that's the case, then what's the point of the entire book. Just create stuff based on your players; and give them agency to create stuff in the setting as well.Like the sandboxy Chapter 3 in Storm King's is the weakest part of that module. As a GM, give me a set of throughline stories through the whole adventure. If I want to do sandbox, I can, and ignore the stuff between L4 and L7; but the reason I buy pre-published adventures is so I don't have to create on the fly.</blockquote>