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class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXEP9DB5LzymNyswLOwGMsSfIbUlJ9FameCUWMm8FuW7XIs2sr-FGxJGTsYonNSF0RPodaWBinn4ebfj8gSoRu5WQanu3y-gMXl2TwPHZcvAZ7kFG7pvvqlNeDSVjgj5flCRd6ugW10Uo/w400-h183/tenor.png' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='3073808350938125391' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='3073808350938125391'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/08/sandbox-advancement.html'>Sandbox Advancement</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-3073808350938125391' itemprop='description articleBody'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXEP9DB5LzymNyswLOwGMsSfIbUlJ9FameCUWMm8FuW7XIs2sr-FGxJGTsYonNSF0RPodaWBinn4ebfj8gSoRu5WQanu3y-gMXl2TwPHZcvAZ7kFG7pvvqlNeDSVjgj5flCRd6ugW10Uo/s640/tenor.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="640" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXEP9DB5LzymNyswLOwGMsSfIbUlJ9FameCUWMm8FuW7XIs2sr-FGxJGTsYonNSF0RPodaWBinn4ebfj8gSoRu5WQanu3y-gMXl2TwPHZcvAZ7kFG7pvvqlNeDSVjgj5flCRd6ugW10Uo/w400-h183/tenor.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>After four years of playing with the XP for GP rule, I have a hankering to try something different. The genre expectations and mode of play that go with that style of play don't seem like a great fit for a psychdelic, spiritual journey, sword & planet game that I'm planning as my next campaign titled Jorune: Evolution.  <div><br /></div><div>In fact, for my Jorune: Evolutions campaign I've decided to do something pretty drastic given it's OD&D-inspired chassis: to run it as a game without experience points or levels. The question this post deals with is then how to handle advancement. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/06/xp-for-gp-and-retro-gaming-what-are.html">As I discussed here,</a> one thing I like about XP for GP is that it sets up open-ended objective challenges for players to solve. I also like that it incentivizes exploration in a sandbox without forcing the exploration to head in any particular story direction. Another nice benefit is that it does this by tying advancement to retrieving something that can be used in open-ended ways to further player involvement in the setting. <div><br /></div><div>In that earlier post, I canvassed some alternatives to XP for GP, and many people pointed to still further alternatives. Here are the alternatives I've pulled together that will perform the same functions as the gold-XP nexus and the incentive of gaining levels in Jorune: Evolutions. I plan to distribute the functions played by XP for GP advancement to a variety of mechanics. We might call this "advancement decentralization". Here are a few decentralized options. </div><div><br /><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Downtime </h3><div><br /></div><div>I'm going to handle development of skills, institutions, relationships, knowledge, weapon proficiencies, and the rest, directly through my system of downtime activities. This system puts incremental advancement in an economy of activities through which players develop their characters and leave a mark on the world. So that does a fair bit of the work that XP for GP does. </div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Social Advancement</h3><div><br /></div><div>In Jorune, the default premise for the game is that the characters are "tauther" undergoing the citizenship ("drennship") application process called "tothis". This process involves a time of service to the realm, during which one must win the support of a variety of drenn patrons by accomplishing things that align with their goals. This means that in order to advance socially towards the social status of citizenship, one must navigate a social space in which one win over patrons with differing (and possibly opposing) schemes and interests. <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ILp7ZUoJsp1MMuX3bQg-lqvLB8w8tN-M0fvSeQ7D_cAu5LdzZBRcR32aXr9AHM8GqJhiY7Mz2Io1w8ZYFSfKbXT5QOyaK5Hv7OUhv7AlhRVcCfrw_8tknpu8dTEORS0EjZrQv-2bB0g/s932/1_JV2VWwh3uCk0oixqC1lgFw.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="932" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ILp7ZUoJsp1MMuX3bQg-lqvLB8w8tN-M0fvSeQ7D_cAu5LdzZBRcR32aXr9AHM8GqJhiY7Mz2Io1w8ZYFSfKbXT5QOyaK5Hv7OUhv7AlhRVcCfrw_8tknpu8dTEORS0EjZrQv-2bB0g/w400-h198/1_JV2VWwh3uCk0oixqC1lgFw.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Small Ticket Sandbox Advancement</h3><div><br /></div><div>Sandbox advancement is something I touched on <a href="http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/06/xp-for-gp-and-retro-gaming-what-are.html">in this post on experience points</a>, but I wanted to spin it out a bit more here. The idea is that one advances by doing certain things in the sandbox. As I noted there, one sees something like this in Carcosa where one advances as a sorcerer by uncovering rituals, cthonic entities, and sorcerous materials at set locations in the sandbox. (It's as though the magic-user's spell list is distributed in space throughout the hexes of the sandbox, which is pretty cool.)</div><div><br /></div><div>I definitely will be using this in Jorune: Evolutions. Some of the "evolutions" mentioned in the title will be things that can be undergone only in certain locations of the hexmap. These could involve evolutions in terms of Isho (psychic power) or in terms of Earth-Tec or other unknown dimensions of evolution. Similarly there will be a whole minigame about unlocking visions and powers by doing limilates (drugs). Naturally, the rare and wonderful drugs will be sprinkled (planted) throughout the sandbox. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJvStXw7DIAuizixdHSWmRSPDThuM1dOMAMFleKNG8o37VJAdxPVCWfSUuTQjc0k3bMIgfhDtmObFIXlIn6Ouornx2MgwJUxYY_xxdhaqBazKJWXqB011IedvPTuP3RY2k7AOSPh4u2d4/s422/page_1_thumb_large.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="320" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJvStXw7DIAuizixdHSWmRSPDThuM1dOMAMFleKNG8o37VJAdxPVCWfSUuTQjc0k3bMIgfhDtmObFIXlIn6Ouornx2MgwJUxYY_xxdhaqBazKJWXqB011IedvPTuP3RY2k7AOSPh4u2d4/w304-h400/page_1_thumb_large.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><h3>Big Ticket Sandbox Advancement</h3></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div>But this incremental development of skills and powers leaves out what we might call "big-ticket" advancement. Going up a level in D&D is a sudden big advancement. There's a certain thrill of crossing a threshold. It's also an abstract way of measuring how much of a badass your character is. And it comes with big mechanical gains that you can't get any other way: most importantly more hit dice, but also combat bonuses, better saves, more spells, improved class powers, and the like. To keep some of the flavor of OD&D, I want to discuss one way of handling "big ticket" advancement in a system without XP or levels. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>My idea is to tie big ticket advancement to a bucket list of signature Jorune achievements. These should be achievements that adventurous youths of Jorune dream about doing, the kind of thing that tells you straight away that the person who did them is at least on the way to being a badass. It is important that the achievements be objective in the sense that they are not primarily plot goals, and that players can pick them up or put them down as they like, or ignore them altogether, without in any way derailing or detracting from the game. This is what makes them sandbox friendly. They also should be known objective challenges that are hard to complete. </div><div><br /></div><div>This idea is clearly related to "milestone experience" from 5E, where the DM awards XP using campaign "milestones". Someone might say that a bucket list of big accomplishments is just a series of milestones. There's truth to this, but I want to start by saying that "milestones" is not the metaphor I would choose insofar as it suggests that the party is on a road to a determinate destination, i.e. it's a metaphor that pushes against open-world sandbox play towards the railroad and the adventure path. This resonance is heightened by the all too brief discussion in the 5E DMG, where we are told three things a milestone might be. </div><div><br /></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>"Accomplish one in a series of goals necessary to complete an adventure". This is not a sandbox friendly formulation, insofar as it presupposes that there is "an adventure" and that it has a series of "goals" that you have to accomplish to complete the adventure.</li><li>"Discover a hidden location or secret relevant to the adventure." This is better, but it still has that pesky idea of "the adventure", relevance to which makes uncovering secrets a milestone. </li><li>"Reaching an important destination". This at least has the <i>form</i> of a sandbox achievement in the sense I am working with. There's some place on the map. It's important and hard to reach. If you get there, then you get a big ticket advancement. Like visiting the city of Carcosa in <i>Carcosa</i>.</li></ol></div><div><br /></div><div>In any case, unhappy metaphors and assumed play-styles apart, I am happy to say that "Sandbox Advancement" is an experience point free variant of "Milestones".   </div><div><br /></div><div>This raises the question what the signature accomplishments might be and what big-ticket rewards they bring with them. On Jorune a partial list might look like this (I want to expand this to 10 things for 10 possible advancements): </div><div><br /></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Exploring a skyrealm, one of the mysterious flying islands of Jorune.</li><li>Exploring Shanthic ruins, the mysterious hidden ancient underground cities of a strange psychic race.</li><li>Discovering a cache of Earth-Tec, the ancient technology of the travelers.</li><li>Killing a Dhar Corundron, the apex predator of Jorune. (Think of it as a sword and planet version of killing a dragon.)</li><li>Mapping something, sailing some river, Laying eyes on the Trinnu Gulf, AKA the Amoeba Sea </li><li>Somehow getting up into outer space, or exploring the moons of Jorune, etc.</li><li>Finding The Ship (or if there were more than one, <i>a </i>ship) of the travelers.</li></ol></div><div><br /></div><div>When you accomplish one of these signature goals, each player in the group chooses 1 of these options to improve their character:</div><div><br /></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Raise HD by 1 (You can do this 3 times max)</li><li>Raise 1 stat modifier by 1 (You can do this 1 time only for each stat)</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>You make only raise your HD 3 times, and you may raise each attribute modifier only once. So you may advance in this way a total of 10 times before you are a truly legendary adventurer. Raising an HD is a big deal in this system. </div><div><br /></div><div>Stat modifiers are also a big deal, since in my current version of the rules, few people will start with them, and they shift the probability on 2d6-based stat, skill, and downtime checks a lot. While they matter less in d20 combat, it's hard to come by bonuses of any kind in this system, since there is no attack bonus beyond what different weapon types give you, and armor options are likely to be limited. So I imagine it will be worth it to chase whatever edge you can get.  </div></div><div><br /></div><div>Next time I'll talk about the skill system. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIz0KUIYC6TynUhEjJUDLZuAF1UtBKDEaW3cCRrJ8huLij5JN8YtuSOzQLTmQfh_v7mttBhhHy_i3HYKzr2Alk_CISmJEBt3b54TYbwzTllCkANJns4UGRUzt_2LPVJN50UrdTts-c_zQ/s469/focus15119f11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="469" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIz0KUIYC6TynUhEjJUDLZuAF1UtBKDEaW3cCRrJ8huLij5JN8YtuSOzQLTmQfh_v7mttBhhHy_i3HYKzr2Alk_CISmJEBt3b54TYbwzTllCkANJns4UGRUzt_2LPVJN50UrdTts-c_zQ/w400-h394/focus15119f11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>Ben L.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/08/sandbox-advancement.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/08/sandbox-advancement.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2020-11-22T07:04:00-08:00'>7:04 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/08/sandbox-advancement.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 3 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-401723375'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4202612634352350608&postID=3073808350938125391&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> Labels: <a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Advancement' rel='tag'>Advancement</a>, <a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Experience%20Points' rel='tag'>Experience Points</a>, <a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Level%20Free%20D%26D' rel='tag'>Level Free D&D</a>, <a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Sandbox%20Advancement' rel='tag'>Sandbox Advancement</a>, <a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/XP%20for%20GP' rel='tag'>XP for GP</a> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Wednesday, June 24, 2020</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4h9aBJoRUREpFEhHJkT-RJKIuofjnMQe1C_hMVm_GSNFwOtCf9SD6kCSwAYDNqfD2Z1rSefoig-PW0bHXYAID2xma9DToRFp12mmW2yQeCJpfDqcUqXlMO4xKsZkvSOMcyJmerVwEYw/s400/b259cbe7901e67f01c85eb942507beac.jpg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='4202612634352350608' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='5970887554952424864' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='5970887554952424864'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/06/xp-for-gp-and-retro-gaming-what-are.html'>XP for GP and Retro-Gaming: What are the Alternatives?</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-5970887554952424864' itemprop='description articleBody'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4h9aBJoRUREpFEhHJkT-RJKIuofjnMQe1C_hMVm_GSNFwOtCf9SD6kCSwAYDNqfD2Z1rSefoig-PW0bHXYAID2xma9DToRFp12mmW2yQeCJpfDqcUqXlMO4xKsZkvSOMcyJmerVwEYw/s1600/b259cbe7901e67f01c85eb942507beac.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="500" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4h9aBJoRUREpFEhHJkT-RJKIuofjnMQe1C_hMVm_GSNFwOtCf9SD6kCSwAYDNqfD2Z1rSefoig-PW0bHXYAID2xma9DToRFp12mmW2yQeCJpfDqcUqXlMO4xKsZkvSOMcyJmerVwEYw/s400/b259cbe7901e67f01c85eb942507beac.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> In <a href="http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-secrecy-and-discovery.html">three</a> <a href="http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-emergent-story-and.html">recent</a> <a href="http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/06/pleasures-of-osr-overcoming-challenges.html">"theory" posts</a>, I've been describing retro-game (OSR) play style. At several points, I've emphasized how the 1 XP per 1 GP rule sustains the pleasures of retro-gaming play. But the truth is that the rule limits and directs play in various ways we might want to avoid, and suffers from problems when it's lifted from the original context for which it was fashioned. So I think it's worth our time to understand as clearly as possible what it does for retro-gaming play, so that we can see what alternatives there are that might do the same work. In other words, I want to understand the role of 1 XP per 1 GP in order to think about what alternatives to that rule that might enable and sustain retro-gaming play.<br /> <br /> Here are some positive things 1 XP per 1 GP does in retro-games. First of all, it sets an objective success condition, thus enabling <a href="http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2020/06/pleasures-of-osr-overcoming-challenges.html">the pleasure of overcoming challenges</a>. You succeed if you get a big treasure haul out of the dungeon; you fail if you come up empty handed. While players will pursue <i>many</i> other goals in open world gaming, setting their own additional success conditions, this dimension of objective success and failure is crucial for maintaining the pleasures of overcoming challenges. It gives you success as something that is not settled by DM fiat ("milestones" or "good play" rewards), or negotiated between players and DMs, allows the DM to occupy the role of a neutral referee or judge. The world is set up, the challenges are placed, and the players do what they want, with the DM refereeing the consequences of their actions.<br /> <br /> Another reason 1 XP per GP works is that it incentivizes exploration and discovery, thus enabling<a href="http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-secrecy-and-discovery.html"> the pleasures of exploration</a>. Treasure is placed in the forgotten corners of the world, or in the ruins of the great Empire that Was, in the cracked ancient domes of the serpent people, etc. By placing the lure of wealth (and so success) in the places that must be explored and understood in order to overcome the relevant challenges, you regularly entice the players to break new ground, and uncover the mysteries of the setting as a condition for success.<br /> <br /> It also de-emphasizes combat as the sole or main way to gain experience. Instead of telling you to always rely on your sword arm, it encourages out-of-the-box thinking, and opens up the possibilities of faction-based play. You do not need mindless monsters to slay for "grinding experience", but can rather have most "monsters" attached in one way or another to factions with their own goals and complexities. It leads to a more creative and tactical, less reductive style of play (in this respect), lending itself better to <a href="http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-emergent-story-and.html">the pleasure of emergent stories and open-world play</a>.<br /> <br /> Here's a point I owe to conversations with Nick Kunzt. Something that I haven't emphasized previously, but that is implicit in <a href="http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Downtime%20Activities">the system of downtime activities</a> I've been developing. In his account of money, Marx emphasizes that money is the universal commodity. It is like the philosopher's stone in allowing one to transmute any object (that one sells) into any other object (that one buys). His droll example involves the religious farmer who grows wheat, and sells it, in order to buy a bible...from a bible salesman who uses the farmer's money to buy whiskey and print atheist tracts.<br /> <br /> Of course, there are some things money can't buy, like love and solidarity, but it buys an awful lot: a wild night on the town, orphanages, arms for a peasant's revolution, books, a wizard's tower, improvements to an inn, a really special sword, etc. The point is that by tying advancement to the possession of a universal commodity that player characters can spend to pursue their own idiosyncratic goals, it encourages interaction of player characters with the setting from the start. They are encouraged to build something so to speak, and to leave their mark on the world one way or another. Again, this kind of dynamic investment in the setting is one of the great pleasures of open-world, sandbox gaming.<br /> <br /> <h2> Some Problems and Limitation with XP for $$$</h2> <br /> What follows are my thoughts about some problems and limitations with this rule. I want to emphasize that I myself am currently using the rule, and have done so for the last 4 years of play. I'm not trying to talk anyone out of using it. But here are some ways that I have found it to be problematic or limiting.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiANVvoo5mT_QDmGuPkql1zGb_OPpFSevAcStqowmbYXeYs5P7WNPJEai1evTwLDHPpapLXlIKlBXMQJc4pmFd3bFtrzVs259Kda6Vow95gLBPA1-O_Wu4EaOfBCDCQ96Z9H-3XVFAM6AY/s1600/4634079-mr-moneybags-silhouette-design-ideas-monopoly-man-server-life-monopoly-man-png-black-and-white-1280_926_preview.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="1280" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiANVvoo5mT_QDmGuPkql1zGb_OPpFSevAcStqowmbYXeYs5P7WNPJEai1evTwLDHPpapLXlIKlBXMQJc4pmFd3bFtrzVs259Kda6Vow95gLBPA1-O_Wu4EaOfBCDCQ96Z9H-3XVFAM6AY/s400/4634079-mr-moneybags-silhouette-design-ideas-monopoly-man-server-life-monopoly-man-png-black-and-white-1280_926_preview.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <h3> The Rule Valorizes Bad Values</h3> <br /> Something that people worry about with this rule is that it involves bad values and politics. For example, that it valorizes capitalistic greed and colonial plundering. This sentiment is frequently expressed on gaming twitter. I think there's <i>something</i> to this worry, although not as much as people think. There's so much to say about this that I'll only be able to scratch the surface.<br /> <br /> First, a clarification. This worry does not depend on the thought that playing D&D <i>causes</i> us to have the relevant values as people sometimes claim that children who play violent video games are more likely to grow up to be violent adults. (These are claims that could be investigated with social science to test for the causal links.) Instead the worry is that this rule in retro-gaming invites us to <i>express</i> a certain value, to casually treating something bad <i>as if it were good to do,</i> so that we can have fun doing it. Such an expressive attitude is insulting to the people who actually suffered these things (exploitation and colonization) and would appear to endorse, even if only in imaginative play, the thought that what they underwent was not really an injustice, or one not worth taking seriously.<br /> <br /> Let's start with capitalist greed. One problem with this objection, when it's stated nakedly, is that one can play at things without valorizing them. One can enjoy playing diplomacy, while opposing imperialism, militarism, and great power politics, or monopoly with little sympathy or affection for real-estate moguls. Those games do not involve much imaginative investment, but even where we are more richly invested in imaginative play, being earnest is not the only mode of play available. I often play retro-games with groups that are largely composed of socialists, anarchists, and leftists of various stripes. We often enjoy playing sometimes self-serving individuals who enrich themselves by extracting treasure from dungeons while engaging in a Vancian comedy of manners with a wide range of factions, including friends, enemies, and best of all, frenemies. Our games are not unified in this aesthetic, because we're not emulating a genre (that's not how retro-games work), but it's definitely part of what's going on. In other words, we enjoy a certain swath of the game because it is pleasing satire of self-advancement or competitive greed. It's true that it's enjoyable in a sort of touch-in-cheek satirical mode only because we are drawing on our real world experience of things that aren't great. But that's what satire is for.<br /> <br /> Another problem is that players characters in games with 1 XP per GP are often not very greedy when they get ahold of treasure, at least in the sense of looking to accumulate wealth. First off, in my experience player characters often end up throwing their lot in with oppressed underdogs in the setting, and end up spending their wealth to help people or pursue spiritual or political goals. It helps that the rule is <i>not </i>that you get experience points through returns on business investments (normally, money you get without adventuring doesn't count), and often there is an emphasis on spending down any wealth you get (often you only get XP if you spend the gold). So it's definitely not about setting up enterprises to efficiently exploit workers, or even about becoming rich. The worry that it's a game about capitalism, or even greed in the sense of ambition for material advantage, status, and luxury, doesn't fit very well with my experience of play since I started using the 1 XP per GP rule. I'm not saying you can't go there with this rule, <i>obviously you could</i>, I'm just saying that it's easy <i>not</i> to go there if you don't want to.<br /> <br /> A bigger worry, I think, is about colonialism. "Plunder" and "exploration" and "taming" of already inhabited "wilderness" certainly is a big part of the heritage of D&D. When extracting loot is used to motivate exploration of lands already inhabited by intelligent beings this seems to be an issue. But there are ways of handling XP for GP that do not valorize colonialism, either in the mode of "exploration" or "settlement", or in the mode of "resource extraction". One way this gets handled in a lot of retro-gaming settings is to place the exploration and looting of cultural sites in a post-apocalyptic space. What one loots are the splendors of the ancients, past great empires, and the like. In a certain sense, this is counter-colonial, since the ancients were more likely to be the colonizers or the imperial forces, and one lives in a destitute present of the post-colonized. Similarly, geographical exploration is not about spreading the reach of some supposedly superior civilization as in settler colonialism, but rather about uncovering eldritch sorceries and ancient ruins of (more) advanced civilizations under a dying sun. So one is looting, yes, and plundering cultural artifacts, certainly, and exploring geography that may already be inhabited, most definitely, but it really matters <i>who</i> is getting plundered by <i>whom</i>, and <i>who</i> is doing all that exploring in the service of <i>what</i> projects. Colonialism is not just any kind of exploration or plundering.<br /> <br /> Now this point is a little bit delicate, because there is a nugget of truth to the idea that people who were raised in colonizing or settler colonial nations can only get so far from real world horrors when drawing imaginaries shaped by this historical milieu. I can recognize that the politics of <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark</i> were atrocious (not fighting Nazis, that was great), and I can make sure that my D&D game is not about stealing golden idols from savage "natives" to return to safekeeping in the setting's version of the Oriental Institute or to private collectors. But that childhood experience of watching Indie switch the bag of sand for the golden idol are certainly part of the subterranean fuel that feeds my dungeon imagination. Similarly, when Luka Rejec writes in <a href="https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/collections/luka-rejec/products/the-ultraviolet-grasslands">Ultraviolet Grasslands</a>, my current favorite retro-gaming product, that one of the main influence was playing the Oregon Trail video game, it's pretty clear that he's drawing from an imaginary that is shaped by the exploration of inhabited lands by settler colonialists. But if you read UVG, although you are certainly encouraged to "go west young man" by the long map that begins with your home base in the East, the resemblance stops there. You start in a city that is controlled by cats with human pets, and travel across post-apocalyptic trackless wastes to places ruled by technologically superior AIs with multiple porcelain bodies. The psychedelic acid metal vibe really has little to do with the aesthetics or value system of <i>The Last of the Mohicans, </i>much less <i>Gunga Din</i>. In short, UVG draws on cultural sources (e.g. the Oregon Trail video game) that are part of the historical inheritance of settler colonialism, but it does so in sophisticated and highly mediated ways that do not reproduce or valorize colonialist value systems.<br /> <br /> I can live with that. But I get it if you think the mere resonance with cultural inheritances shaped by colonial tropes is too much, even if it is handled well and doesn't involve literal colonialism in the game. In that case, I can see a reason to decouple acquiring loot and exploration, and so a reason to ditch the XP for GP rule.<br /> <br /> But there is still a part of me that wants to reply to this objection that perhaps rather than having white people in settler-colonial societies try to excise every cultural reference to an ever-present colonial past from the imaginative influences on their games, a better solution would be to broaden the pool of people imagining retro-gaming settings to include the contributions of creators in formerly colonized nations of the global south. Can I take a moment to emphasize just how great <a href="https://athousandthousandislands.itch.io/">Zedeck Siew and Mun Kao's Thousand Thousand Isles</a> setting is?<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlZqWNrnJJJSgtONVkumC_V0s08xRxZed2GPpCv3iGuCRz5lVY-Ay1OkjoazH802zc_G9_H_cWXdpyvGL-5TBZd1oK114rz94alZzdAb_skKO95zO_SnIsUa6HT7PU1mWkKcdKE3CAbdQ/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-06-22+at+2.53.31+PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="1180" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlZqWNrnJJJSgtONVkumC_V0s08xRxZed2GPpCv3iGuCRz5lVY-Ay1OkjoazH802zc_G9_H_cWXdpyvGL-5TBZd1oK114rz94alZzdAb_skKO95zO_SnIsUa6HT7PU1mWkKcdKE3CAbdQ/s400/Screen+Shot+2020-06-22+at+2.53.31+PM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by Mun Kao!!!</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <h3> The Rule Produces Predictable and Limiting Genre Effects </h3> <br /> But this brings us to a second problem. One limitation of the rule is that it steers the game towards producing stories that fit certain genres, and steers the game away from stories that fit certain other genres. For example, it steers the game towards Vancian satirical picaresque, or pulp swords and sorcery, or towards gritty tales, and decidedly away from high fantasy like <i>Lord of the Rings</i> or coming of age tales like <i>A Wizard of Earthsea </i>or <i>Chronicles of Prydain</i>, or a million other genres. <a href="https://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-emergent-story-and.html">Now retro-gaming is not <i>about </i>reproducing a genre experience</a>, so you might think this isn't a problem. But without treating genre emulation as the goal, we can still recognize that there are predictable effects of operating with a certain systems of rewards. Since we take pleasure in the stories that emerge spontaneously from play, we are not indifferent to the flavor of those stories.<br /> <br /> It's awkward to run a game with a high fantasy vibe with this as the main rule for advancement, and it would also be a strange fit for a game with a romantic vibe that was about developing relationships. If you are happy with Vancian picaresque or Lieber-style pulp fantasy, then the rule works fine. But if you want a game that has less shady characters who are on the make, then this rule is pretty constraining. What we incentivize matters for the flavor of the stories that results, even when play doesn't consist of trying to tell a story that fits a certain genre. 1 XP per 1 GP can flavor the stories that emerge from open-world play. When this taste grows stale, we might want to prepare the ground for stories with a different flavor.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYahfiLLyxSgfKKH9tMpeqU4PqQ9XYFMvuAh43WbmQ9k8I0zLJ1b-dvzRGVCw0Rn6zVJta7HHbBMRHC6Gxa4Dk89VNkV9HC6Uhvr3A1OoyepKsPHK5IUN6Ktadzw48qJzuZAVEiXg7PNI/s1600/16e5f24979df483483f2c02b93dfabd4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="691" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYahfiLLyxSgfKKH9tMpeqU4PqQ9XYFMvuAh43WbmQ9k8I0zLJ1b-dvzRGVCw0Rn6zVJta7HHbBMRHC6Gxa4Dk89VNkV9HC6Uhvr3A1OoyepKsPHK5IUN6Ktadzw48qJzuZAVEiXg7PNI/s400/16e5f24979df483483f2c02b93dfabd4.jpg" width="306" /></a></div> <br /> <h3> The Rule Doesn't Work Over the Arc of a Campaign</h3> <br /> Currently, my biggest gripe with this rule is that it doesn't really work over the arc of a campaign in a sandbox setting. My eyes were really opened to this fact by playing in Nick Kuntz's megadungeon game during the quarantine. The original games of D&D, for which the experience system was developed, were megadungeons, where all play centered on exploring a vast mythic underworld location, for example, Gary Gygax's legendary Castle Greyhawk. Nick has been running a wonderful game like that set around a mysterious underground area called the Complex. Nick is using B/X with modern retro-gaming tools and sensibilities. It is immediately apparent to me that the advancement system of XP for GP will work perfectly throughout the entire arc of this campaign, focused as it is on dungeon delving for treasure in what is an epic dungeon that can sustain a whole campaign.<br /> <br /> But in an open-world sandbox, where things are not tethered to a single dungeon location, I have found that the rule tends to fade in significance around 5th level, when the players become really invested in the setting. At first they adventure for gold, lured by their initial destitution and powerlessness to the treasures placed throughout the sandbox. But then, as they come in to their own, develop connections to NPCs and factions, and have travelled extensively and have affected the world through their actions, they no longer choose where to go or what to do based on how much treasure they are likely to get.  And that's a good thing, since it shows that they have become really invested in the setting and world, and are doing <i>just exactly what</i> as a DM I hope players will end up doing.<br /> <br /> I find that, as a DM, when confronted with this, I start to place treasure where the players are likely to go, rather than luring them to go certain places by placing treasure. Since they're becoming heroes and risking more dangerous things, I have a pretext to put richer (sometimes absurdly rich) treasure there that keeps them advancing to higher levels with their exorbitant XP requirements. But it feels, on my end, like a charade, since the campaign has evolved beyond a point where gold is actually motivating their choices. To be clear, they still do things to overcome challenges--but the challenges are not mainly overcome in order to acquire treasure.<br /> <br /> There's nothing terrible about this, but it does seem like a failure of game design, insofar as the core mechanic of advancement works the way it is designed only at low levels. One would like an advancement mechanic that either shifted gears along with the phases of the campaign, or worked uniformly throughout the arc of a campaign.<br /> <br /> <h2> Alternatives to XP for GP</h2> <br /> To recap, XP for GP does a lot for retro-gaming play: it sets objective success conditions, motivates exploration, encourages tactical play rather than combat, and ties advancement to the ability to effect the campaign world in player-driven ways. But it also comes with a set of limitations, possibly encouraging self-seeking PCs, flirting with colonialist imaginaries, skewing the sorts of stories that emerge from play towards the gritty, picaresque, or pulp, and functioning unevenly over the course of a campaign. In light of these problems, it's worth looking at some alternatives. What we want are incentives to adventuring that do the same or similar work for enabling retro-gaming play, while increasing our options and avoiding some of these problems.<br /> <br /> Having read a fair bit of contemporary retro-gaming materials, as well as early hobby games, I can think of four alternate approaches. These approaches are not exclusive and can be combined with one another, or even with the XP for GP rule.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD60V3tPxAfiWQ5tla7FHdHkEK_NuDyVF-bIPkIuxRE6M4sDJ2KJ4Cji8RHjSMZBnGcq0BKmgk1yu-0CdNXgMQaTfNTpoRqIZWxEGsB25QcuUtYtXE558SaiVc74ytKjiWc5FTFczZXPs/s1600/download-9.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD60V3tPxAfiWQ5tla7FHdHkEK_NuDyVF-bIPkIuxRE6M4sDJ2KJ4Cji8RHjSMZBnGcq0BKmgk1yu-0CdNXgMQaTfNTpoRqIZWxEGsB25QcuUtYtXE558SaiVc74ytKjiWc5FTFczZXPs/s400/download-9.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luka Rejec from Ultraviolet Grasslands</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <h3> </h3> <h3> Directly Award Experience Points for Retro-Game Activities</h3> <h3> <br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Perhaps the simplest alternative is to simply award experience points directly for engaging in retro-game activities. For this to preserve the challenge oriented nature of the game and the neutral role of the DM as referee, it's important that this not take the form of the DM (or other players) "rewarding" good retro-game play by doling out experience awards, but rather takes the form of getting experience points for achieving objective success conditions that are known in advance. </span></span></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A classic approach in a hexcrawl is to award a set amount of experience for exploring a new hex, with another set amount for uncovering a new adventure site. I use this in my dreamlands games for the exploration of the White Jungle, awarding 50 XP to each player for each new hex uncovered. (This is a large amount of XP for mere exploration, but the White Jungle is deadly.) You can also award known amounts of XP for visiting certain amazing locations or being the first to find them, as Jeff Reints discussed brilliantly <a href="https://jrients.blogspot.com/2009/12/exploration.html">in this post</a>. </span></span></span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This will work best if the players know about rewards for finding and visiting these legendary places of adventure. </span></span></span></span><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">If you're interested in awrding XP directly for exploration, probably the sleekest and most developed version can be found in Luka Rejec's </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Ultraviolet Grasslands, </i><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">which is about long distance travel on a pointcrawl rather than a hexcrawl. UVG gives XP for how far the PCs travel on the westward pointcrawl, as well as for discovering locations, identifying and studying new flora and fauna, investigating (and perhaps triggering) anomalies, and surveying and mapping interesting sites. One can also directly reward other retro-game activites, such as faction-based play. Humza Kazmi has discussed on twitter and elsewhere the idea of rewarding XP for improving the reaction roll modifier that different factions have towards the PCs or the PCs settlement. While I haven't seen a system like this worked out in any detail, it's not hard to imagine how it could work well in fostering socially oriented faction-based play in an open world sandbox. I look forward to seeing it developed.</span></h3> <h3> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span> </span></h3> <h3> Use Sandbox Advancement</h3> <h3> <br /> <span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another approach is to tie character advancement directly to visiting certain locations in the sandbox without the medium of experience points. For example, in <a href="https://us.lotfp.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=76">Geoffrey McKinney's </a><i><a href="https://us.lotfp.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=76">Carcosa</a> </i>there are two classes, warrior and sorcerer. Sorcerers are warriors who can also learn to cast rituals. The way sorcerers do this is by finding and visiting secret locations on the map, for example, where they can read the markings on the ancient red obelisk or listen to the whispers of the blind oracle and learn such and such an eldritch ritual. Similarly, certain rituals can be cast only in certain locations, or depend on components that are found only in one place on the map. This brilliantly tied magic directly to sandbox exploration by (literally) putting spells on the map.</span></span></span><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Traveller has an element like this as well. In the original 3 little black books, there's a whole part of the game that has to do with acquiring psychic powers. No one can start with psychic powers. The only way to find out if a player character has psychic potential and the only way to unlock that potential is by locating and visiting the Institute. But to protect itself from persecution, the Institute is hidden on some backwater in the vast reaches of space. The book introduce a whole minigame for tracking it down over the course of a campaign via whispers and rumors. </span></span></span><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is even there in D&D in vestigial form from the beginning, in that one of the class powers of fighters in OD&D is that they are the only class able to use magical swords. So finding one of the magic swords placed in the sandbox is necessary to unlock one of the main powers of fighters. Similarly in <i>Electric Bastionland</i>, advancement is largely by finding oddities, old tech, scattered about the sandbox.</span></span></span><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: small;">This is a nifty way of motiving exploration, since it ties character advancement directly to exploration and interacting with the game world, without the use of an abstract currency like experience or treasure, and so without the general need to acquire piles of loot. Furthermore, it does so by setting up objective success conditions: find the Institute, learn the delirious incantation to summon the dreaded blue maw from beyond space and time, unearth a Glamdring or Sting from a mouldering barrow.  </span></span><br /> </h3> <h3> <br /> </h3> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9rUQo6j8-_tzWQAxf_EAYMzTRTv3Xs7eBaxKUA4rDndZxcp52_bX3UdevYUhS51XD2MmxPwUIRO0utypz_6MJdp-uxXisnPX6GE9AmTKPa-VKRNJp6OJ-rSR6lFtmCVwIMnFluM4ERs/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-06-21+at+4.36.16+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1196" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9rUQo6j8-_tzWQAxf_EAYMzTRTv3Xs7eBaxKUA4rDndZxcp52_bX3UdevYUhS51XD2MmxPwUIRO0utypz_6MJdp-uxXisnPX6GE9AmTKPa-VKRNJp6OJ-rSR6lFtmCVwIMnFluM4ERs/s400/Screen+Shot+2020-06-21+at+4.36.16+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div> <div> <br /></div> <h3> Start the PCs in Debt</h3> <br /> Another alternative is to keep money as the incentive for adventuring, but use an alternate frame introduced originally by Traveller (1977). In classic traveller, the default assumption is that you start off with an old spaceship that you bought with a massive loan from the bank. Fuel and repairs are expensive, and interest payments are due every month. If you can't pay, the bank takes your ship. You're motivated to take shady jobs to keep the jalopy running and pay off the rapacious bankers nipping at your heel . <a href="http://www.bastionland.com/">Chris McDowell's recent <i>Electric Bastionland</i>,</a> another triumph of retro-game design, uses this collective debt frame as well. McDowell also adds a mechanic that increases your debt when players die, adding another incentive to avoid character death.<br /> <br /> This is an interesting mechanic in that it leaves treasure as the incentive, but decouples it from mechanical character advancement. In <i>Traveller</i> and <i>Electric Bastionland,</i> there are no systems for mechanically improving your adventurer, although to a certain extent character advancement is replaced by ship advancement in Traveller, since more money means that you can make improvements on your ship. In <i>Electric Bastionland</i> too<i>, </i>character improvement is almost solely about what gear you have. But you could couple the debt frame with another system of character advancement. The point is that with the debt frame you are still incentivized to explore and adventure, and in doing so you still get a universal commodity that allows you to interact with the setting in multiform ways.<br /> <br /> One advantage of this approach is that it builds in a sunset to wealth acquisition as a mechanic, and so overcomes the problem about the uneven functioning of this rule over the arc of a campaign. In the early stages, you're trying to get out from under a crushing debt. You reach a real transition point when you've paid of your loan and the ship is finally yours. By that point, you're invested enough in the setting to be a self-starter when it comes to adventuring and exploration.<br /> <br /> Another advantage of this approach is that it puts you in the business of getting treasure by starting you off in the situation of someone who is oppressed by the system, in a kind of debt-bondage to a patron or the lords of finance. This puts a different political spin on scoring treasure, so it also deals with the "values" problem in a different way.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFwCtaukgadKDEchhpByV8LE9q3z6EAVeyoxkP9lvXDS9eZNasKZgXwuZxql80GpZugBdOswHDYQvc0OphU3sQpc1PAQ0h-wTlfgyegdpZPx9QVZ6pB0NRphkGoU67qHziDezmvUEpDQQ/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-06-21+at+4.38.53+PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="454" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFwCtaukgadKDEchhpByV8LE9q3z6EAVeyoxkP9lvXDS9eZNasKZgXwuZxql80GpZugBdOswHDYQvc0OphU3sQpc1PAQ0h-wTlfgyegdpZPx9QVZ6pB0NRphkGoU67qHziDezmvUEpDQQ/s400/Screen+Shot+2020-06-21+at+4.38.53+PM.png" width="283" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by the unforgettable Miles Teves.</td></tr> </tbody></table> <h3> </h3> <h3> Replace Getting Gold with Achieving a Desirable Social Status</h3> <br /> Similar to the debt frame, but without the use of money, is a set of motives for adventuring and exploration that involve achieving some desirable social status. For example, in <i>Skyrealms of Jorune</i>, one begins as a tauther, a subject of the realm who is undergoing the period of challenge and service to become a citizen (drenn). One becomes a drenn by getting other important drenn (NPCs) to vouch for one, by marking one's chalisk (disk) or making the pilgrimage to the capital to testify on one's behalf. In short, one adventures in order to build relationships with NPCs and factions so that they will help one become a citizen. Again, getting NPCs to vouch for you is an objective success condition tallied by the literal number of marks on your chalisk. And like the debt frame, it has a sunset condition built in. Once one has enough marks to become a drenn, this reason for adventuring no longer applies. But by then the PCs will be neck deep in the setting with plenty of goals of their own.<br /> <br /> Similarly, in the original <i>Empire of the Petal Throne</i>, one begins as a foreigner, fresh off the boat in the foreigner's quarter. One works over time to be accepted socially in Tsolyani society, perhaps becoming a citizen and being accepted into a clan. While less clear cut and mechanically codified than in <i>Skyrealms of Jorune</i>, this kind of  play that involves advancing by developing social relationships is at the heart of gaming in Tekumel. It's probably the single main thing that sets <i>Empire of the Petal Throne </i>apart from D&D in its various incarnations.<br /> <br /> As you can probably tell, these approaches are not unlike the idea that Humza floated of using experience point rewards for improving social relations, but they do it by attaching the award to a desirable in game social status rather than through the medium of an abstract currency. This is more immersive and less gamified approach, but requires a setting of a very particular kind to work.<br /> <br /> <h2> So What are Your Ideas?</h2> <br /> I'd love to learn about more approaches, so please don't hesitate to drop your ideas in the comments.  Remember that we want are incentives to adventuring that help to sustain the distinctive pleasures of retro-gaming in exploration and discovery, in emergent stories and open worlds, and in overcoming challenges. So mechanics that award PCs for just showing up, or for meeting preset story goals, or for instructive failure, or for having used a skill in game, or for acting the part of their character according to genre expectations, are not the kind of thing we're looking for. Not that those things are bad, they just don't work to sustain retro-game play style. What are your ideas?<div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Addendum (8/20/2020)</h2><div><br /></div><div>DIY and Dragons <a href="https://diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2020/08/xp-for-exploration-maps-monster.html">just did an amazing post</a> discussing a bunch more ways of rewarding exploration, travel, discovery of secrets and the like. See especially her discussion of Neo-Classical Greek Revival's method for rewarding a higher experience point value for each room (or hex) into which you push before returning to the surface, Dwimmermount's awards for uncovering secrets of the megadungeon, and Ryuutama's travel-based system of XP. 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It started when we were walking home from grade school in winter, through ...</div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </li> <li> <div class='item-content'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-emergent-story-and.html' target='_blank'> <img alt='' border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPkmuYO0aq3a2-lnID9fIU6_eq1K9j8OvvGEDimTVc3qUvnF7iUoosaBRBhTcd4U4YNulhIaP9u9KGJZUFGaA7Xw0lya2OI7X-nSAO-Ki6g-8Vm0UvgkF_ZfK1fGSWTWbimcbgs3QwoLA/w72-h72-p-k-no-nu/Explored_lvl1.jpg'/> </a> </div> <div class='item-title'><a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-emergent-story-and.html'>Pleasures of the OSR: Emergent Story and Open Worlds</a></div> <div class='item-snippet'> This is the second post in a series where I explore the OSR play style by considering the different pleasures it makes available....</div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </li> <li> <div class='item-content'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-secrecy-and-discovery.html' target='_blank'> <img alt='' border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikYcoBrWIAJaUZ_ubXCrE9B5aI2cVlyLMVtn-7TwhtB0UNuA-Feq1VQZK6HnimIwAiQshFpXSc52yl8Plr7SDM8pD9OAezTSFZ2jO1kGq7hOM8nud4G2NIUOu5rhSzBxnzEZn-pumT9NY/w72-h72-p-k-no-nu/14715642732_bbfb2cb415_o.jpg'/> </a> </div> <div class='item-title'><a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/04/pleasures-of-osr-secrecy-and-discovery.html'>Pleasures of the OSR: Secrecy and Discovery</a></div> <div class='item-snippet'> This is the first in a series of posts that try to say something about the theory of the OSR style of play. I promise never to use jar...</div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </li> <li> <div class='item-content'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/02/crossroads.html' target='_blank'> <img alt='' border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwI5QHbZsik290-Wy_J7V8EjKthPxK6_FYqBlMsqDv9RhAdLGvgBb-pvV31aDXVSt0xzh5Y7poeTA9oeWRzgpgp7pTZkCcBFWbRJc46p9mPxLkfNS07gfVPkbsVJGwSxx3Lp9-Xq8LLoI/w72-h72-p-k-no-nu/0_ln2VfaxAoPMIZ6Zv.jpeg'/> </a> </div> <div class='item-title'><a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2019/02/crossroads.html'>Crossroads</a></div> <div class='item-snippet'> I believe Mandy, Jennifer, Hannah and Vivka. If you haven't read their harrowing accounts of Zak Smith's abuse, you should go d...</div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </li> <li> <div class='item-content'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/08/using-landmarks-in-wilderness-travel.html' target='_blank'> <img alt='' border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-238OGfUAm0RuCf9gRARkb5KFLFZT7lKhTDHP78mjImnCmXPvrJxNx1eHNpdB6-yUmAZXScuh58JrMqcylSf68GR99Vk6zPjVzIIYleW-M4eQZ73zGbYqgTpOYaOOky2r5n8rsx_ZqGE/w72-h72-p-k-no-nu/5145.jpeg'/> </a> </div> <div class='item-title'><a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2021/08/using-landmarks-in-wilderness-travel.html'>Using Landmarks in Wilderness Travel</a></div> <div class='item-snippet'> I've been continuing work on my Jorune: Evolutions ruleset. Recently I've been working on wilderness exploration rules. One thing I...</div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </li> <li> <div class='item-content'> <div class='item-thumbnail'> <a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2022/12/megadungeon-2023.html' target='_blank'> <img alt='' border='0' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9qDYZdMOG10GotiAOI1WqD-n1-yTpCZmatYvK1zUw-sAgrj2HpXtMD8vQjG6vlHPl5REiM12i5ZopXFyodifvkO_HawroPMrXxAvKeqlT79nmJs57Y0d43Or0n9U7_aqef4L9UL5VqjiiYFKPdDnMxwdfVVvxi4FPkAZnFn5AD5ehSDXD-Sdjtfs_/w72-h72-p-k-no-nu/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-05%20at%208.26.09%20PM.png'/> </a> </div> <div class='item-title'><a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2022/12/megadungeon-2023.html'>DUNGEON23</a></div> <div class='item-snippet'> So Sean McCoy posted this on Twitter.  He wrote about it more on his substack here . Sean is calling the challenge #Dungeon23. The challeng...</div> </div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </li> </ul> <div class='clear'></div> </div> </div><div class='widget BlogArchive' data-version='1' id='BlogArchive2'> <h2>Blog Archive</h2> <div class='widget-content'> <div id='ArchiveList'> <div id='BlogArchive2_ArchiveList'> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2025/'> 2025 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2025/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(1)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/2025/02/becoming-human-mothership-downtime.html'>Becoming "Human" 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<a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Evils%20of%20Illmire'>Evils of Illmire</a> </li> <li> <span dir='ltr'>Experience Points</span> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Exploration'>Exploration</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Familiars'>Familiars</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Finding%20the%20Right%20Buyer'>Finding the Right Buyer</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Five%20Years%20Left'>Five Years Left</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/G%2B%20Games'>G+ Games</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Garbage%20Barge'>Garbage Barge</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Gathering%20Intelligence'>Gathering Intelligence</a> </li> <li> <a 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href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Hex'>Hex</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Hex%20Crawl'>Hex Crawl</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Hidden%20Metamorphoses'>Hidden Metamorphoses</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/High%20Song'>High Song</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Hit%20Points'>Hit Points</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Home%20away%20from%20Home'>Home away from Home</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Homebase'>Homebase</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Hull%20Breach'>Hull Breach</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Ian%20Yusem'>Ian Yusem</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' 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Books</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Magical%20Books'>Magical Books</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Magical%20Items'>Magical Items</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Magical%20Research'>Magical Research</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Martial%20Training'>Martial Training</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Megadungeons'>Megadungeons</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Memorialization'>Memorialization</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Memories%20of%20the%20Ship'>Memories of the Ship</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Memory'>Memory</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' 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Whelan</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Nightwick%20Abbey'>Nightwick Abbey</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Non-Magical%20Research'>Non-Magical Research</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Old%20School'>Old School</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/OSR'>OSR</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Overcoming%20Challenges'>Overcoming Challenges</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Pale%20Echoes'>Pale Echoes</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Papers%20and%20Pencils'>Papers and Pencils</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' href='http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/search/label/Pegana'>Pegana</a> </li> <li> <a dir='ltr' 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