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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GuardianLurker" data-source="post: 744901" data-attributes="member: 786">Guess you're not going to have any fighters who climbed up through the ranks leading your standing army then, since almost none of the standard activities for a trooper in a standing army involve any of those.Or aged, high-level wizard-sages who've lead a life of magical research and teaching as a court magician.Actually, unless you use the Story Awards variant, under the standard 3e rules, it's impossible to earn XP for anything other than defeating monsters and traps. Do you really want to argue that *those* XPs aren't applicable to PCs and NPCs equally?Even with the Story Awards variant, it'd be hard for me to come up with flavored XP.If I applied the "flavored XP" consistently to everything, I'd be saying things like "No, Joe, you can't advance as a fighter. I know you defeated the Hideous Ravenous Bug-blatter Beast of Traal single-handed, but you did it using Rogue-type activities, so it's gotta be as a Rogue." or "I'm sorry Sir Gwarimir the Paladin, but because you helped out that sick free-holder take in his harvest (thus demonstrating the charity and humility proper for a paladin), you don't have quite enough XPs to advance to 5th and gain your special mount."I like my life - I'd think I'd like to keep it.</blockquote>