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<blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 6253727" data-attributes="member: 413">I guess this has never been a problem for me...most of my players are casual (I'm lucky if they even buy a phb) and those that are more than casual are fellow DMs and if I break from the guide lines they don't care. Edit:&nbsp; they tend to follow the most obvious path to excitement and only deviate if I put up some fairly obvious foreshadowing of doomHowever...back to the article at hand...I don't think they are saying killing monsters is the only way to get XP...they are just giving the rationale for what a monsters xp is...i.e. if the only thing the pcs do is kill monsters in party level encounters this is the rate of advancement you will see.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would be stunned if they don't have story based awards and awards for avoiding monsters etc.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe I'm wrong...don't really care because I'll manipulate xp awards to pace advancement to suit my group anyway and us whatever guidelines they present as a tool for helping me do that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Uller, post: 6253727, member: 413"] I guess this has never been a problem for me...most of my players are casual (I'm lucky if they even buy a phb) and those that are more than casual are fellow DMs and if I break from the guide lines they don't care. Edit: they tend to follow the most obvious path to excitement and only deviate if I put up some fairly obvious foreshadowing of doom However...back to the article at hand...I don't think they are saying killing monsters is the only way to get XP...they are just giving the rationale for what a monsters xp is...i.e. if the only thing the pcs do is kill monsters in party level encounters this is the rate of advancement you will see. I would be stunned if they don't have story based awards and awards for avoiding monsters etc. Maybe I'm wrong...don't really care because I'll manipulate xp awards to pace advancement to suit my group anyway and us whatever guidelines they present as a tool for helping me do that. [/QUOTE]

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