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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 5143233" data-attributes="member: 83805">I was thinking of games which had very little to no story-related rewards.  Something where the player's character sheet remains the same throughout the game with very few to no changes, other than maybe changes in hit/health points during injury and healing, and stuff from failed saving throws.A few 1E AD&D games I played in back in the day resembled this.  The DM did not give out any treasure, other than the MacGuffin of interest which was to be returned to the king/patron/etc... requesting it.  The DM also did not give out any magic weapons, and did not bother with keeping track of XP.  So we had no easy way of "leveling up" other than finishing the quest by bringing back the MacGuffin, and the king/patron/etc... giving us training as a reward.For the most part, our characters died in numerous TPKs and we churned through as many as a dozen characters.  Our character sheets changed very little during the entire game, other than hit points and whatever bad stuff happened whenever we failed a saving throw.  A few players even had their level demoted to "level 0" or particular stats permanently decreased, by particular monsters or failed saving throws.In the end, we never had the opportunity to retrieve the MacGuffin and never leveled up.  The DM didn't even give any hints as to where to search for the MacGuffin.For the most part, we got bored after a few months of playing this way, and eventually changed the DM to somebody else.  Even to this day, none of us will play in any games with this particular DM.  Not even if he paid us to play in his games.</blockquote>

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