Experience point

I played Old Gods of Appalachia with my kids and some family friends when I went on vacation, you know, I guess a couple months ago at this point.

One of my sons spent XP to become not trained, but specialized in fighting bears.

Yeah.

Okay.

We've talked about everything there is to talk about.

The other key mechanic of the game, which is not a resolution mechanic, it's just a cool feature of the game, are the idea of intrusions.

And so there are GM intrusions, there's player intrusions, and both of these things play into the idea of having XP.

And so we're going to talk about all three of them right quick.

Again, another hook carried on a stick.

Again, it's exactly similar to something that Monopoly would run with these flash events, like very short, like... 10 minute, 5 minute, 15 minute events we just can try to suck out more engagement out of you and keep you there because again if I stay for 5 more minutes I can get double the amount of currency for something or 50% off for building something this is the same thing you get triple XP for 10 minutes just by 10 more minutes so again it dishes out more engagement exactly same thing again here you see some examples that Monopoly Go is pretty much shuffling around and again very very similar design The other important thing that these guys added, as I said, now that they know their core, which means the core is starting a lesson, doing a lesson when you get these energy, you know, kickbacks, and then you finish the lesson.

And the lesson is now giving you XP points.

Oh, like, what do you mean XP points? Yeah, actually, we have an XP points and you have a level.

And there's leaderboards.

And in these leaderboards, as you see here, you can get better standings because you get the XP.

That's it.

So again, they have XP system.

I get it.

You... want dungeons to be the primary asset for equipment for more gear so if you want gear you go to dungeons you do not want you know the constant grinding of a dungeon to get the most xp out of that so i get the practicality of making that change i think that is a great change now it's the quests From those dungeons or the XP that you get from the quests from the dungeons.

That's just a little too much.

Because with the Ruins of Lordaeron, I feel like...

I thought that was really well put.

The quests...

Yeah, I mean, the XP inside the dungeons was very little.

It reminded me of when you're in a raid group in a dungeon, and the XP...

Let me just throw up a comment that Stephen Kennedy had a couple of minutes before you got on that point.

Stephen was suggesting, give your mappers some extra XP for their good works.

These

are all good ideas to incentivize what you want to see for play at the table, obviously.

print money.

Yeah.

So I will be doing that with this campaign of trying to convince my players, maybe even bribing them with XP to keep records of what happened.

How

Then Fine had the, what he called the secondary frame or the game frame, where we are players of, like, we exist inside the relatively rigid, relatively confined, uh, system of rules.

And, like, I am a level six fighter with X amount of XP, and I have strength 17, and I have dexterity 14, and yada, yada, yada.

And my action...

Or my, my, like, the things I can do in this frame are limited to the actions defined in the game rules, which in RPGs are a little bit blurry.

So if you-- Say, say we were, um, we had subscriptions to World of Warcraft, and we decided to get on a RP server and join a role-playing guild, aptly named Role-Playing Guilds, and we started playing the game.

And if you-- And listeners, if you've ever played a World of Warcraft or a GTA, then I think you'll know what I'm talking about here.

But if I start role-playing more th- And I start giving more emphasis on the role-playing parts of those games versus the gamey parts of those games, like am I playing World of Warcraft better? Am I playing GTA better if I'm role-playing in the game versus if I'm just following the systems of XP grinding or getting my money up or following the, uh, the embedded narrative of, of either game?

No.