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Milestone leveling in WotC editions?
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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 9230984" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>I don't recall ever seeing formal rules or published guidelines which suggested anything like milestone leveling. Not until 2E do I recall seeing any kind of significant proposals in the rules of changing default XP awards or procedures AT ALL. During the 2E era I may have seen less than a handful of people suggesting the idea of that kind of free-form leveling but would have immediately dismissed it out of hand and given it zero consideration. Post TSR (3E era) I may have seen more suggestion of it, would have <em>superficially</em> considered it, and then still entirely dismissed it. I'd only have considered it because of what 3E had done to class xp tables - that is, doing away with them and instituting a universal table along with (effectively) completely equal xp awards to all PC's, and therefore making any xp calculations all but entirely pointless ANYWAY.</p><p></p><p>Not until just a few years ago, when I finally wound up as a player in a couple limited 5E campaigns did I actually experience that kind of PC advancement. Given the limited nature of those games I didn't object, but I've never liked the idea. However, I've also preferred to play in open-ended campaigns which at least embraced the <em>potential</em> for truly independent individual PC actions and advancement, as opposed to PC's that are inextricably linked as part of an adventuring party, and where xp calculation is so pointless as to just be dropped in favor of across-the-board advancement on DM whim.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 9230984, member: 32740"] I don't recall ever seeing formal rules or published guidelines which suggested anything like milestone leveling. Not until 2E do I recall seeing any kind of significant proposals in the rules of changing default XP awards or procedures AT ALL. During the 2E era I may have seen less than a handful of people suggesting the idea of that kind of free-form leveling but would have immediately dismissed it out of hand and given it zero consideration. Post TSR (3E era) I may have seen more suggestion of it, would have [I]superficially[/I] considered it, and then still entirely dismissed it. I'd only have considered it because of what 3E had done to class xp tables - that is, doing away with them and instituting a universal table along with (effectively) completely equal xp awards to all PC's, and therefore making any xp calculations all but entirely pointless ANYWAY. Not until just a few years ago, when I finally wound up as a player in a couple limited 5E campaigns did I actually experience that kind of PC advancement. Given the limited nature of those games I didn't object, but I've never liked the idea. However, I've also preferred to play in open-ended campaigns which at least embraced the [I]potential[/I] for truly independent individual PC actions and advancement, as opposed to PC's that are inextricably linked as part of an adventuring party, and where xp calculation is so pointless as to just be dropped in favor of across-the-board advancement on DM whim. [/QUOTE]
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