[Cainehill]

[quote]Originally posted by Boron:

strange .
in every rpg i know you only get xp for KILLING units not hitting them .
just look at diablo 2 e.g.
if you hit baal 1 million times with fists for fun but don't kill him you still get no exp.

First - Dom2 isn't an RPG. Second, in Diablo 2 (which also isn't an RPG), you bloody well do get experience without killing anything. Join a party and leech mega experience without ever swinging a weapon.

so really amazed that dominions should be the only fantasy game so far where this is not the case .
afaik no other fantasy game rewards you for just hitting someone and not killing him.

Most certainly Dom2 is _NOT_ the only fantasy game to do so. The Disciples line of fantasy turn based strategy games (ie, the exact same genre as Dom2) units got experience for hitting opponents, meaning that you had to work to ensure that units actually got to do some damage.

A console RPG that did the same - Final Fantasy VIII or IX or X or some such - it was a _huge_ PITA because if you want your people to level up, you had to swap each of them in long enough to take an action.

Paper and Pencil RPGs such as Runequest, AD&D and the like certainly never insisted that a character make a kill to get experience, or 1st level mages would never reach lvl 2; similarly, support characters such as clerics would rarely.

I'd suggest that your exposure to RPGs, and to computer games, is somewhat more limitted than you might like to believe.