>> The author here seems to be someone still interested in the sort of narrative game evangelized by Wizards Of The Coast and popular D&D media like Critical role, which XP for gold would be a bit of an odd match for.
Can you say a bit more about this? WotC are pushing a narrativist agenda? I'm surprised.
To be fair, I haven't really kept up with D&D editions after 3.5 (I played one session of 4th ed. but I haven't even looked at 5th ed.). So it's a bit of a surprise that it's WotC and D&D that are now the champions of narrative-based roleplaying. There was a time -as recently as ca. 2011-2012- that narrative-based roleplaying was the agenda of Indie PRGs and D&D was even considered the antithesis of that style of play. I appreciate it's more complicated than that, but I'd welcome your perspective, since you seem to be more familiar with modern trends.
Can you say a bit more about this? WotC are pushing a narrativist agenda? I'm surprised.
To be fair, I haven't really kept up with D&D editions after 3.5 (I played one session of 4th ed. but I haven't even looked at 5th ed.). So it's a bit of a surprise that it's WotC and D&D that are now the champions of narrative-based roleplaying. There was a time -as recently as ca. 2011-2012- that narrative-based roleplaying was the agenda of Indie PRGs and D&D was even considered the antithesis of that style of play. I appreciate it's more complicated than that, but I'd welcome your perspective, since you seem to be more familiar with modern trends.