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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9597244" data-attributes="member: 29398">The risk there is that if they can earn xp for downtime activities (safe, usually) there's less reason to go adventuring (dangerous).One admittedly-arbitrary limiting option is to put a cap on how much % of a level's xp can be earned through non-adventuring activities.  Another, more fiction-friendly, option is to have those downtime xp rewards be so small that to gain a level that way might take a few years instead of the usual few adventuring days.Ah.  To me, activities like this are almost an extension of adventuring - a Fighter spends a few weeks on the war's front lines or a Thief does some street work or whatever.  Happens all the time in our games, usually if someone needs just a few more xp to bump.Downtime activities - the type that might earn a few xp, anyway - to me represent things not necessarily directly related to one's class e.g. political activities and schmoozing, public works, research, donations or tithes, and so on.  Non-xp-granting downtime activities include training, carousing, shopping, gear and equipment repair or upgrading, and so on.</blockquote>