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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4459188" data-attributes="member: 710">Rewards and Cost of gameplay can greatly influence how a game is played. It's nice to see that it's working out fine so far for you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />D&amp;D typically rewards killing monsters and taking their stuff. (IIIRC, it used to reward only taking their stuff - XP for GP). That means there is a great motivation for everyone to actively seek out monsters to fight. There is an incentive to really _clear_ a dungeon. We recently played Torg, and the game supports cinematic action a lot. Combats are still an important part of gameplay. But you are not rewarded for combats, you are rewarded for completing at the end of each act and the end of each adventure. The reward comes in &quot;Possibilities&quot;, that allow you to improve your characters skills and abilities, are used to pay off adventure cost for special abilities, and are used to improve dice rolls or to avoid damage.The latter two points are very critical - whenever you engage in a fight, you end up spending your own rewards to win it! There is no incentive to seek out a fight. Clearing a dungeon (in the aforementioned adventure, it was not a dungeon, but a oil drilling platform) is never something you're interested in.The only remaining incentive might be equipment or money - but both is pretty irrelevant in Torg. Sure, you have your equipment, but there is little incentive to find more, since you probably already have the best you can use anyway. If you need more - the equipment you find in the fights you have to take will usually suffice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4459188, member: 710"] Rewards and Cost of gameplay can greatly influence how a game is played. It's nice to see that it's working out fine so far for you. ;) D&D typically rewards killing monsters and taking their stuff. (IIIRC, it used to reward only taking their stuff - XP for GP). That means there is a great motivation for everyone to actively seek out monsters to fight. There is an incentive to really _clear_ a dungeon. We recently played Torg, and the game supports cinematic action a lot. Combats are still an important part of gameplay. But you are not rewarded for combats, you are rewarded for completing at the end of each act and the end of each adventure. The reward comes in "Possibilities", that allow you to improve your characters skills and abilities, are used to pay off adventure cost for special abilities, and are used to improve dice rolls or to avoid damage. The latter two points are very critical - whenever you engage in a fight, you end up spending your own rewards to win it! There is no incentive to seek out a fight. Clearing a dungeon (in the aforementioned adventure, it was not a dungeon, but a oil drilling platform) is never something you're interested in. The only remaining incentive might be equipment or money - but both is pretty irrelevant in Torg. Sure, you have your equipment, but there is little incentive to find more, since you probably already have the best you can use anyway. If you need more - the equipment you find in the fights you have to take will usually suffice. [/QUOTE]

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