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<blockquote data-quote="Meech17" data-source="post: 9250026" data-attributes="member: 7044459"><p>The very first few games I played were 2E AD&D and the DM gave us XP per monster. We would finish an encounter and they would break it down. </p><p></p><p>"The orcs were 50XP each, and there were four, so 200 there, the goblins were each 15, and there were six so 90 there.. The Evil Necromancer was 250xp, and each of his skeletons were 20, so another 100.. That's 640xp, for five players, we'll round up and say you each earn 150xp. " (Made up numbers)</p><p></p><p>After we got through their introductory game we went out and bought our own books which happened to be 3.5E, and my older brother ended up being our usual DM. He ended up doing kind of milestone leveling with more steps. He'd look at the XP required and usually give us fractions of a level after the session. For instance you needed to go from 6000XP to 10000xp to get from fourth to fifth level. He'd want that to take four sessions so he'd give us 1000xp each session. There were times where he'd just straight up say </p><p></p><p>"Take 1/4 or 1/8th of a level." After a while, I don't know if he heard about milestone leveling, or if he came up with it himself, but he realized he could just tell us "Level up" after certain story points, which is what I'm doing now for my 5E group. I gave them a level after the first session, and I will probably let them take level 3 after the next session which will be our third. The gap from 3-4 will probably be longer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Meech17, post: 9250026, member: 7044459"] The very first few games I played were 2E AD&D and the DM gave us XP per monster. We would finish an encounter and they would break it down. "The orcs were 50XP each, and there were four, so 200 there, the goblins were each 15, and there were six so 90 there.. The Evil Necromancer was 250xp, and each of his skeletons were 20, so another 100.. That's 640xp, for five players, we'll round up and say you each earn 150xp. " (Made up numbers) After we got through their introductory game we went out and bought our own books which happened to be 3.5E, and my older brother ended up being our usual DM. He ended up doing kind of milestone leveling with more steps. He'd look at the XP required and usually give us fractions of a level after the session. For instance you needed to go from 6000XP to 10000xp to get from fourth to fifth level. He'd want that to take four sessions so he'd give us 1000xp each session. There were times where he'd just straight up say "Take 1/4 or 1/8th of a level." After a while, I don't know if he heard about milestone leveling, or if he came up with it himself, but he realized he could just tell us "Level up" after certain story points, which is what I'm doing now for my 5E group. I gave them a level after the first session, and I will probably let them take level 3 after the next session which will be our third. The gap from 3-4 will probably be longer. [/QUOTE]
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