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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 407107" data-attributes="member: 5724">expi haven't as of yet reduced the amount of exp i give to my PC, but i will the next game i run, probably down to 1/8th of what is listed in the core books. (my last group gained 5 levels from a dungeon that took them 9 days in game time.  and im a pretty rough, uncompromising DM)the main reason is for world viability issues.  if this group of heros (the PC's) are out adventuring there have to be more of them.  if they advance to 20th level in a year and 1/2 of gameplay that is way to fast to maintain any pretense of a coherant world, imho.  and once you factor in ressurection you'll pretty soon have a world that is massivly powerful and nothing close to the "basic" 3E DnD setting.  and one of those massive dungeons that crothian was talking about can only take a month or two of game time and result in a 12th level character.  Its just to hard for me to accept as a DM.the other part of it is from the players perspective.  I want my players to realize that the fun in the game does not come from leveling and increasing power.  sure thats fun but that is a very small part of the fun of the game.  the fun in the game is the play.  and it doesnt really matter what level you're at.  I like the idea of having players take years of game time to build their way up to a respected level.  I think it will lead to a more developed style (ie more fun from an immersive role-play view) of play from my next group of players.  Course, they could just hate 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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />just my .002$joe b.</blockquote>

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