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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9803398" data-attributes="member: 20564">Let me start with I think you have a perfectly good answer.  I'm not trying to debate it, I gave it a like.It did bring up an interesting point I wanted to explore though.  Others have commented from the GM side (and I do this myself) that leveling is more of a pacing mechanism.  As a GM I also try to give my players lots of freedom in the goals they pick and how they overcome them.  But I just realized I could marry the leveling-as-pacing GMing and risk-for-reward player strategizing by making the riskier paths also the shorter ones leading to the next increases in scope and issues (that is, the pacing).But would that satisfy?  As a player who likes to be able to decide to gamble or not for those bigger rewards, would it throw you off to know that doing so would be hastening the next chapter of what the party is trying to accomplish, so in terms of the challenges to overcome you aren't getting in front of them by taking riskier choices now, just that the riskier path is likely shorter than the safer-per-challenge but with less challenges.</blockquote>