"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; "
Actually when I played AD&D 18 years ago this is what we happened but our mage got to 4th level when we were 1st by getting xp for putting on a magic ring! Ah the sheer madness of the thing..
"I'd suggest that your exposure to RPGs, and to computer games, is somewhat more limitted than you might like to believe.
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Well some of us have probably been playing RPG since before he was born...
Pickles
[ July 30, 2004, 09:27: Message edited by: Pickles ]