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<blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 9207338" data-attributes="member: 72555"><p>First you don't have to use XP.</p><p></p><p>Second, if you do level up ever 5 or so sessions, and use gritty rests with about 1 month per level, then the game stretches over about 2 years of both real life and in-world time.</p><p></p><p>You can tell different stories over those 2 years.</p><p></p><p>L1-4 is Local Heroic. 4 months of in world and real life time. Mere mortals.</p><p></p><p>L5-10 is Regional or National Heroic. 8 months of in world and real life time. This is the limits a moral can reach without cheating.</p><p></p><p>L11-16 is Epic or Global Heroic. Another 8 months of in world and real life time. NPCs in this power tier have cheated to gain their power.</p><p></p><p>L17-20 is Legendary or Planar Heroic. 4 months of in world or real life time, and universe-changing events.</p><p></p><p>NPCs don't have to auto-scale for this to work. There just have to be challenges at the higher tiers. The Liches, Demons, Elder Dragons, or even squads of Giants -- all are reasonable challenges for Epic tier heroes.</p><p></p><p>There aren't any "masters of the blade" that scale with the PCs needed, and NPCs can cap out in the single digit levels (except, say, a 1000 year old elven swordmaster, who is level 11.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NotAYakk, post: 9207338, member: 72555"] First you don't have to use XP. Second, if you do level up ever 5 or so sessions, and use gritty rests with about 1 month per level, then the game stretches over about 2 years of both real life and in-world time. You can tell different stories over those 2 years. L1-4 is Local Heroic. 4 months of in world and real life time. Mere mortals. L5-10 is Regional or National Heroic. 8 months of in world and real life time. This is the limits a moral can reach without cheating. L11-16 is Epic or Global Heroic. Another 8 months of in world and real life time. NPCs in this power tier have cheated to gain their power. L17-20 is Legendary or Planar Heroic. 4 months of in world or real life time, and universe-changing events. NPCs don't have to auto-scale for this to work. There just have to be challenges at the higher tiers. The Liches, Demons, Elder Dragons, or even squads of Giants -- all are reasonable challenges for Epic tier heroes. There aren't any "masters of the blade" that scale with the PCs needed, and NPCs can cap out in the single digit levels (except, say, a 1000 year old elven swordmaster, who is level 11.) [/QUOTE]
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