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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4022352" data-attributes="member: 29398">Not quite.  Change "players" to "characters", however, and you're bang on.Here's where 1e has something to teach: you get ExP for avoiding a challenge just as if you had defeated it.If the goal of the moment is Z and to get there your path ultimately has to go: (non-Z letters represent challenges, and it doesn't matter here about anything else; let's just assume a simple situation)Start ==> A ==> B ==> C ==> D ==> E ==> ZThen it makes no difference to anything including ExP whether you outright defeat all 5 challenges; or whether you defeat A, intentionally avoid B and C via stealth, then defeat D and E; or find ways around all 5 and go safely to Z...as long as Z gets accomplished.As for whether a character's theme will help or harm it in actual gameplay, all I have to say is this: many's the time as a player I've found myself (or put myself) in just such a situation, that to stay in character I as player have to make a wildly sub-optimal choice - examples include a below-average-party-level Knight deliberately seeking out the toughest foe in melee where there were others better suited for it, and predictably dying; or pulling a character out of a party that I as player would prefer to stay in because there's good in-game reasons for the character to be elsewhere - and I take it as just a natural part of a roleplaying game.Lanefan</blockquote>