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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 998471" data-attributes="member: 151">The RPGA uses standard rules for XP, as far as I know...but given the relative lack of frequency for advancement in the RPGA, combined with the low magic and higher lethality, it all balances.&nbsp; There are few characters in Living Greyhawk with levels in the double digits.As far as your system goes, you just qualified it sufficiently for me.&nbsp; You don't actually want the group to advance too far.&nbsp; A valid choice, but not the norm, I think you'll agree.Why make 20 levels if you don't ever intend to let your players attain them?&nbsp; High-level play, IME, doesn't so much 'break down' as differs from low-level play.&nbsp; Many people don't enjoy that style of play, and understandibly so.&nbsp; However, I think folks like Piratecat and Sepulchrave would argue that the game focus changes, and the nature of the challenges shifts with it.There are aspects of high-level play I don't enjoy as much, but there are aspect I enjoy more than before.&nbsp; There's no point in having powers available for players, if you don't let them use them, IMHO.&nbsp; At 1st level, casting a magic missle is fun.&nbsp; At 20th level, it's Meteor Swarm.&nbsp; That bothers some folks sense of verisimilitude, but me, I like having wizards who cast Maximized, Empowered Sonically-Admixtured Fireballs....but that's just me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 998471, member: 151"] The RPGA uses standard rules for XP, as far as I know...but given the relative lack of frequency for advancement in the RPGA, combined with the low magic and higher lethality, it all balances. There are few characters in Living Greyhawk with levels in the double digits. As far as your system goes, you just qualified it sufficiently for me. You don't actually want the group to advance too far. A valid choice, but not the norm, I think you'll agree. Why make 20 levels if you don't ever intend to let your players attain them? High-level play, IME, doesn't so much 'break down' as differs from low-level play. Many people don't enjoy that style of play, and understandibly so. However, I think folks like Piratecat and Sepulchrave would argue that the game focus changes, and the nature of the challenges shifts with it. There are aspects of high-level play I don't enjoy as much, but there are aspect I enjoy more than before. There's no point in having powers available for players, if you don't let them use them, IMHO. At 1st level, casting a magic missle is fun. At 20th level, it's Meteor Swarm. That bothers some folks sense of verisimilitude, but me, I like having wizards who cast Maximized, Empowered Sonically-Admixtured Fireballs....but that's just me. :) [/QUOTE]

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