Goals System

Why?

The goal-based XP system is an alternative to traditional XP systems that reward players for defeating monsters and completing quests. Instead, players are encouraged to set their own goals for their characters and work towards achieving them over the course of the game.
This system offers several benefits over traditional XP systems. It allows players to shape their own gameplay experience and focus on the goals that are most meaningful to them and their characters. It also encourages players to think more about their characters' motivations, personalities, and development, leading to more immersive and engaging gameplay.

Criteria for a Goal

So the first thing you might be asking yourself is what is a goal, well for a start a goal is anything your character can do that has a chance of failure that is not just going to happen anyways. A goal must have a risk of failure in order to be valid for experience award. Now that is not to say that a goal such as speak to my fellow party member about their dark past is not valid. The chance of failure here comes with not producing an environment where the person refuses to talk about their backstory a failure does not necessarily mean a dice roll.

Types of Goals:

There are three different types of goals that players can set and I encourage you to choose at least one from each of these below

1. Personal Goals - These are goals that only affect your character ,examples: Develop a romantic relationship with a NPC, Explore my character's past and uncover a family secret or Perform a successful "trick shot" with a ranged weapon
2. Party Goals - For these goals you are looking one stage outward at your fellow party members they will have a direct or indirect impact on your party members, examples: Resolve a conflict between two party members Help another party member achieve a personal goal, or set another party member up for a sweet hit.
3. World Goals - These are the big ones goals that affect the wider world, examples: Uncover a secret about the world or particular faction, Change the attitudes of two factions towards each other, or through combat make a large change to the battlefield knocking over a building or something like that.

XP is awarded based on the difficulty of the goal and progress made towards achieving each goal. For more difficult goals it's possible to gain rewards multiple times as a percentage of the whole. If the case arises where a player has made progress but not completed the goal a clock will be started to indicate how far along a player is in completion of a goal. A clock can only have 4 segments any more and the goal should be broken up into smaller parts.
I've tried to provide examples of both goals that are more specifically tied to roleplaying elements and goals that are closer in spirit to combat and what you can do in there. In the latter case think of these as achievements and try to hunt for them. There is no difference in rewards based on whether your goal is combat or RP related.
A goal is assigned a difficulty at time of creation, this difficulty is based on how hard it is for the character at that point in time to complete the goal.

In Practice

Before the session starts ideally each player would set up to three goals they want to advance, these can be anything but some guidelines are above and it would be preferred if you had one of each type of goal though it's not necessary. A goal may be secret to the rest of the party if you wish to conceal some information. Goals may be abandoned at any time though no XP is awarded in such a case. At the end of the session the goals are assessed and experience points awarded.

Character	Complexity Level
Level	Direct	Composite	Elaborate	Convoluted
1	15	25	45	135
2	30	50	90	270
3	110	150	230	690
4	245	315	455	1365
5	510	620	840	2520
6	590	750	1070	3210
7	695	915	1355	4065
8	875	1165	1745	5235
9	960	1330	2070	6210
10	1290	1750	2670	8010
11	690	1250	2370	7110
12	995	1665	3005	9015
13	875	1665	3245	9735
14	1160	2080	3920	11760
15	1440	2500	4620	13860
16	1290	2500	4920	14760
17	1960	3330	6070	18210
18	1790	3330	6410	19230
19	2445	4165	7605	22815
20	2255	4165	7985	23955