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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7034921" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I just thought that was an interesting aspect of 4e. I mean, you probably wouldn't have done that in any earlier edition (there were at least some mechanical uses of XP in 3.x, and it was pretty ingrained into 1e. 2e sort of started to bring it into the realm of story, but you still had the complex training rules and different advancement rates, XP bonuses for high stats, etc, which kinda told us that we SHOULD use XP.5e, I think it really is just about as 'XP optional' as 4e, but there's STILL not quite the easy measuring stick of "you did 10 encounters, that should be worth a level" that you always get with 4e. There's just something about encounters, when things are part of them, the story DRIVES forwards. I rarely get that sinking feeling I'd used to get in an AD&D game when I was GMing and the players sort of just tossed everything on me to kickstart some action and the game started to wander around in the weeds of hanging around in taverns or something droll like that (not that a good focused tavern scene isn't great, but I have little use for the "we just go into the tavern 'cuz" thing). Now, in 4e if the PCs "go into the tavern 'cuz", its basically GOT to be an SC, so there has to be some plot and etc that will happen. Granted, there's a chance the players won't help in supplying it, but everyone kinda knows how it goes, things ARE going to move forward. I noticed our 5e game would sometimes have this issue too (I was only playing in 5e, not DMing). All of a sudden we'd kinda be at loose ends. You could 'run out of story' and there just isn't a set way of going forward. Its actually kind of weird for a game to have a space in which no aspect of play is engaged, there are no goals, nothing.</blockquote>

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