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<blockquote data-quote="PJ Coffey" data-source="post: 9275035" data-attributes="member: 6901867"><p>Well XP is generally only framed as being given for killing things? </p><p></p><p>Saying you should give XP for social situations, for discoveries isn't something I've seen in many places. For some people it's very controversial ("roleplay should be its own reward") but incentives are incentives. </p><p></p><p>I note that A5e awards XP for exploration challenges. So that's a move away. And Graeme Barber did an excellent piece on awarding XP for team work (a bit meta I concede but in line with my personal values).</p><p></p><p>I think, based on my personal experience of multiple different groups and teaching new players, that new players expect and often enjoy XP. Certainly when I've done some qualitative work with XP vs milestone vs time spent playing, XP seemed popular. But that's about 6 or 7 games not exactly an exhaustive analysis. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😀" title="Grinning face :grinning:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" data-shortname=":grinning:" /></p><p></p><p>However the XP system breaks down after about Level 10 and multiple levels per "adventuring day" in the teens are possible. That's just obvious once you start doing any analysis at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PJ Coffey, post: 9275035, member: 6901867"] Well XP is generally only framed as being given for killing things? Saying you should give XP for social situations, for discoveries isn't something I've seen in many places. For some people it's very controversial ("roleplay should be its own reward") but incentives are incentives. I note that A5e awards XP for exploration challenges. So that's a move away. And Graeme Barber did an excellent piece on awarding XP for team work (a bit meta I concede but in line with my personal values). I think, based on my personal experience of multiple different groups and teaching new players, that new players expect and often enjoy XP. Certainly when I've done some qualitative work with XP vs milestone vs time spent playing, XP seemed popular. But that's about 6 or 7 games not exactly an exhaustive analysis. 😀 However the XP system breaks down after about Level 10 and multiple levels per "adventuring day" in the teens are possible. That's just obvious once you start doing any analysis at all. [/QUOTE]
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