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<blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 5464223" data-attributes="member: 64209">This is going to be clumsy at best, apologies.&nbsp;I've always been a fan (in 2e and 3e) of ignoring a lot of the formal xp awards and essenially levelling up players based on the &quot;story award/overcoming challenges mesh&quot; component...to the point that in some campaigns 50-90% of a level will be the result of this.&nbsp;In essence, when a certain level of heroism has occurred, the heroes become that much more heroic.&nbsp;I used &quot;DM judgement&quot; to award xp based upon activities, actions, successes and failures, to decide when and if the players deserved to advance. &nbsp;&nbsp;I don't know if this response is helpful (I hope it might be), but frankly, I think my group had houseruled xp to be &quot;DM purview&quot; and more of a judgement call than a true currency as is often presented as the &quot;carrot&quot; in many D&amp;D games of all editions.&nbsp;&nbsp;I'd say, though, that the more the game revolves around story and &quot;actions&quot; (not combat action), the more players feel comfortable with xp being a more organic and less mechanistic component of the game.&nbsp;&nbsp;Don't know if that helped, but it was my honest experience as a DM and player in AD&amp;D, 3e, and now up through Pathfinder.&nbsp;&nbsp;EDIT: I wonder how often xp is houseruled or waived in the interest of the group. I mean, how many groups currently enforce a &quot;start at level 1&quot; paradigm when a player dies and cannot/will not be resurrected?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aberzanzorax, post: 5464223, member: 64209"] This is going to be clumsy at best, apologies. I've always been a fan (in 2e and 3e) of ignoring a lot of the formal xp awards and essenially levelling up players based on the "story award/overcoming challenges mesh" component...to the point that in some campaigns 50-90% of a level will be the result of this. In essence, when a certain level of heroism has occurred, the heroes become that much more heroic. I used "DM judgement" to award xp based upon activities, actions, successes and failures, to decide when and if the players deserved to advance. I don't know if this response is helpful (I hope it might be), but frankly, I think my group had houseruled xp to be "DM purview" and more of a judgement call than a true currency as is often presented as the "carrot" in many D&D games of all editions. I'd say, though, that the more the game revolves around story and "actions" (not combat action), the more players feel comfortable with xp being a more organic and less mechanistic component of the game. Don't know if that helped, but it was my honest experience as a DM and player in AD&D, 3e, and now up through Pathfinder. EDIT: I wonder how often xp is houseruled or waived in the interest of the group. I mean, how many groups currently enforce a "start at level 1" paradigm when a player dies and cannot/will not be resurrected? [/QUOTE]

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