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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7953695" data-attributes="member: 29398">First off, thanks for explaining what a 'Tippyverse' is. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm not convinced at all that you can't in this case have the cake and eat it too; where xp are a part of the underlying 'physics' (for lack of a better term) of the game world but where boot-camp training and so forth can only get you so (not very) far: from commoner to 0th or maybe even raw 1st, but that's it.After that, you've got to earn xp either quickly, by adventuring with all its associated very high risks; or slowly, by practicing your skills day after day and year after year as a soldier in an army or a stay-at-home temple cleric or a street thief, etc.By 'campaigns' here do you mean 'adventures'?But yes, PCs are already charter members of the Church of Fast-Tracking Level Bumps.  A PC who retires for a long time but stays involved in their class somehow, e.g. by training others, might pick up a very few xp over the course of that time but it'd probably take at least a few years to gain a level.  A PC who retires outright and becomes a farmer likely wouldn't get any new xp at all.</blockquote>