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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6246152" data-attributes="member: 463">Yep, just saying I like the 4e quest XP structure, with minor & major quests. The 4e Skill Challenge system is useful if you want a lot of formal structure - IME it works quite well for exploration, but I find it much too constricting for social activities so I don't use it for those.The 4e quest XP system can be boiled down to:Achieve Major Goal of PCs' level - PCs get 1/10* the XP needed to level up.Achieve Minor Goal of PC' level - PCs get 1/50** the XP needed to level up.*Which is the same as what the PCs get for a standard on-level combat encounter, or a standard on-level monster for each PC.**I use 1/40 as that is the XP for a 'minion' monster for each PC.The numbers can be read off the 4e encounter XP chart. Players can set their own goals/quests, and this system makes it easy to award XP for achieving them. The GM can also set quests for the PCs. I like this system a lot and will sometimes use it in eg BX D&D, eg I might use the Fighter XP chart and give 1st level PCs 200 XP each for achieving a major goal.Edit: While I don't much like "session XP" as a concept, I keep the 'major quest XP/standard encounter XP/one tenth of XP to level' number in mind as a guide to minimum XP to award for a session where the PCs have been active (no turtling) but it's not that clear what they've accomplished.</blockquote>