Have you considered just giving away the level-appropriate bonus for free?
I'm not a fan of giving people many selective numerical options that are independent of the tactical situation, because it slows down play. I prefer to have all of that stuff hammered out ahead of time so it can be focused on more complicated options, like spells or powers or maneuvers.
But that's just my personal preference. For less-complicated games, that might be an ideal way of expanding peoples' tactical range without rewriting the system too much.
Betting XP as a way to offset/replace randomness
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Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.