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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 5465614" data-attributes="member: 11821">Well, within the last 5 years, I've run three of these and stuck pretty close to by-the-book.  Here's my own thoughts...3e and 4e largely work the same - PCs get XP based on challenges.  Apart from the official addition of skill challenges & quest XP in 4e, they're barely different.  In both 3e and 4e, I based the challenge on the characters' level (either above or below) and constructed encounters around that.  The XP budget in 4e is, honestly, just a more intuitive and easier-to-understand CR/EL system.  In both, while the DMGs give all sorts of advice on how many encounters make up a level, it works fairly organically in the game itself.AD&D is where I had the most bookkeeping.  Again, I was trying to run by the book insofar as that's possible, and Gary had some pretty strong words about awarding XP. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  It's the only edition where I've needed to pull out a spreadsheet to calculate XP, with numerous treasure entries, sale vs. xp award value of magic items, henchmen being worth half a share, and so on.  I loved running AD&D and would do so again in a heartbeat, but the bookkeeping and micromanagement of XP made for a lot of work on my part!That's all just IMO.  I really don't see much of anything other than a superficial difference between 3e and 4e here, but 1e was vastly different in an interesting, fun, and work-intensive way.-O</blockquote>

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