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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8251344" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Not all, perhaps even most, D&amp;D groups didn't drive for &quot;skilled play&quot;; many, perhaps even most, didn't use all the rules in the game. The one most often dropped was XP=Gold. Being a major part of advancement makes it separate than just score-keeping.The whole point of 1GP=1XP is that it's not the killing that levels you up, but the looting. If you can do the looting without the killing, good on ye, bro!It was supposed to be to get the minis players to focus on something other than the killing.It failed. It had a number of other odd effects... given the 1-2 GP a week for commoners income, it meant that Joe the Butcher could hit 2nd level as a fighter on his income as a butcher in about 5 years. I think it's an incomplete view, but agree with it to the extent presented in your paraphrase.But the actual quote is a problematic bit in context. It's an apparent dismissal of the GM role as arbiter of truth of setting. It also lacks the element that mechanics can add things to the narrative, not just resolve situations to allow moving on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8251344, member: 6779310"] Not all, perhaps even most, D&D groups didn't drive for "skilled play"; many, perhaps even most, didn't use all the rules in the game. The one most often dropped was XP=Gold. Being a major part of advancement makes it separate than just score-keeping. The whole point of 1GP=1XP is that it's not the killing that levels you up, but the looting. If you can do the looting without the killing, [I]good on ye, bro![/I] It was supposed to be to get the minis players to focus on something other than the killing. It failed. It had a number of other odd effects... given the 1-2 GP a week for commoners income, it meant that Joe the Butcher could hit 2nd level as a fighter on his income as a butcher in about 5 years. I think it's an incomplete view, but agree with it to the extent presented in your paraphrase. But the actual quote is a problematic bit in context. It's an apparent dismissal of the GM role as arbiter of truth of setting. It also lacks the element that mechanics can add things to the narrative, not just resolve situations to allow moving on. [/QUOTE]

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