XP for non-combat encounters? d20 Modern might be a help!

[Plane Sailing]

I just noticed the following statement by Charles Ryan on the d20 modern message board (my emphasis)

The short answer to your question is that it's like D&D.

The longer answer: every encounter has an encounter level (much like ELs in D&D). Encounters that include defeating opponents base their EL on the opponents' CRs. But since d20 Modern adventures are more story-oriented (often) than D&D, there's also a pretty comprehensive system for assigning ELs to encounters that don't include combat. (Setting up a meeting with a powerful mob boss to ask him about a competitor's organization? The GM can figure out the EL for that encounter, even though it probably shouldn't involve combat.) Experience is granted based on the EL of the encounter.

Hope that helps.

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Charles Ryan
Editor, RPG R&D
Wizards of the Coast

I've been wondering about various methods of handling exp for encounters that don't include combat (I've been looking over Call of Cthulhu for just this reason), and it sounds as if d20 modern might be particularly interesting in this respect.

The whole thread is visible here
http://boards.wizards.com/community/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=291;t=000194


Cheers