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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5465076" data-attributes="member: 54877">As I said in the other topic, we don't use XP in our 4E game (and stopped using it in our 3E game) because we want the group to level together.&nbsp; We've substituted action points (and to some extent, the pick of the best treasure) as the reward for being there and success.&nbsp; Basically, we don't want the power level of the characters tied to the pacing of the story or tied to the rewards offered for the things we want to encourage.&nbsp; (Also, when I seriously considered putting together a spreadsheet to manage XP for nine 3E characters, with 4-5 different character levels represented, I realized it was time to change something. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />)&nbsp;However, if I did use the XP in 4E, I'd very much run an experiment.&nbsp; This would be an avowedly sword and sorcery game.&nbsp; I'd use a variation on the pre 2E editions, and give XP only for treasure.&nbsp; You wouldn't even get any for quests--unless the quest produced a treasure of course.&nbsp; And I think I probably would limit it to the treasure spent.&nbsp; You'd need a few subsystems or structures to handle that money flow, but I think the dynamic might be fairly interesting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5465076, member: 54877"] As I said in the other topic, we don't use XP in our 4E game (and stopped using it in our 3E game) because we want the group to level together. We've substituted action points (and to some extent, the pick of the best treasure) as the reward for being there and success. Basically, we don't want the power level of the characters tied to the pacing of the story or tied to the rewards offered for the things we want to encourage. (Also, when I seriously considered putting together a spreadsheet to manage XP for nine 3E characters, with 4-5 different character levels represented, I realized it was time to change something. :lol:) However, if I did use the XP in 4E, I'd very much run an experiment. This would be an avowedly sword and sorcery game. I'd use a variation on the pre 2E editions, and give XP [B]only[/B] for treasure. You wouldn't even get any for quests--unless the quest produced a treasure of course. And I think I probably would limit it to the treasure spent. You'd need a few subsystems or structures to handle that money flow, but I think the dynamic might be fairly interesting. [/QUOTE]

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