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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenada" data-source="post: 8837501" data-attributes="member: 70468">In a sense, I think that’s the point. A game that uses XP for gold is being very specific about the kind of gameplay it wants to be about. Taken as written, that’s not going to be flexible enough to accommodate other styles of play, but that’s arguably not the intention. However, I do think other games with tailored rewards are not as narrow as you suggest. Blades in the Dark features a number of XP prompts about things you or your crew does. One might think that would generate basic, heist-oriented play and little else, but our Blades game has shown tremendous range of “scores” even though we still hit most of our XP prompts.That’s fair. It’s a good argument for using a reward structure that supports a serialized form of play (e.g., milestone XP/leveling).I have had my own share of GMs who gatekept XP in a way that felt wrong. I would do something thinking it would satisfy the trigger, and they would deny the XP. That does indeed suck, and it’s why I like the approach Blades in the Dark uses of having the player decide whether they satisfied the XP trigger. If I (as a player) decide something doesn’t trigger, then I am presumably fine with that.</blockquote>