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Originally Posted by Shoug
My XP is awarded like this, but this is backwards. I reward bad rolls with more XP, and failure with more XP. I have two marks: Tally, and stars. Tally marks are worth 10 XP (I play with extremely accelerated XP, a tally could be worth 3-5 realistically), stars are worth 2xIQ XP. They are awarded whenever you make a significant die roll, like a combat roll or a regular old check. Any sufficiently warranted roll warrants XP. Marks are then awarded as follows:
Roll>=6 awards 1 Tally
Roll>=9 awards 2 Tallies
Roll>=12 awards 3 Tallies
Roll=16 awards 3 Tallies and 1 Star
Roll=17 awards 3 Tallies and 2 Stars
Roll=18 awards 3 Tallies and 3 Stars
A failed roll always awards 1 additional Tally.
There are two primary reasons I have for awarding XP for failure and bad rolls. The first is open to disagreement, but I think it's realistic that failure teaches you more than success. If everything goes smoothly, you'll never learn what can go wrong. The second is simply a game design decision. I think that it makes it less ruthlessly punishing to fail horribly if you get a big XP reward for it. Yeah you rolled an 18 and broke your weapon, but hey! At least you got a bunch of XP (that you might not even get to spend, because you just rolled an 18 which means you are utterly at the mercy of fate).
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That system sound really neat, but also kind of cumbersome. Are you doing it for every single roll? How does this relate to Job rolls?
Then again, my xp system is pretty clunky... you get xp for every point of damage you roll (not inflict, I include armor as armored foes should be worth more), every point you heal via physicker, every point of Fatique, and every point of damage you suffer.
Monsters then give a flat value based on their relative strength (1, 5, 12, 25, 50, 100, 200+). This value is split amongst everyone involved in a fight as I think sometimes a trip spell is more valuable to killing a fool then a summoned bear and should be similarly rewarded!
Then you get xp for saves, completing goals, roleplaying, exploration, and various other odds and ends.