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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 7721490">Are tables still not rewarding XP for non-combat experiences?  I mean honestly the only way I've ever been able to reach the 6-8 encounters per "day" without turning the game into a grindfest is to make at least half of them non-combat experiences.  Players should be rewarded for their success at diplomacy, deception, deduction, and dedication to tasks that do not involve "hitting it with a stick".  You've never going to convince players to not be murderhobos until you start awarding them loot and XP for participation, completion and success in non-combat areas of the game.  It's amazing how much progress Wizards can undo every edition.  I mean we just had an edition that rewarded XP based on resolution of the encounter (even going as far as to reward non-combat encounter resolutions to combat encounters the same as combat!) and specifically called out non-combat elements to be included AND rewarded.  Yet here we are, trying to reinvent the wheel, wondering just how we can get the other aspects of the game more involved.Mearls, as usual, presents an interesting alternative to the obvious, but like much in 5E feels like a painstaking attempt to miss the obvious and frankly, easiest solution that not only reduces grind, but moves players away from finding combat to be the only means of level-based progression.  The wheel was found to be most useful as a circle.  Why would I ever want to use an oval?</blockquote>

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