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<blockquote data-quote="IceFractal" data-source="post: 3962313" data-attributes="member: 27704">Advancing even every two sessions isn't as fast as you might think.&nbsp; Let's consider a group that plays once every two weeks (or once every week but with two alternating campaigns).&nbsp; For them to go from 1st to 30th level would be 60 sessions, aka 120 weeks, aka more than two years.&nbsp; How many campaigns even run that long?&nbsp; Is it really reasonable to have the default advancement be such that most campaigns never go past 10th level?Personally, I've been in only one campaign that actually went from low-level to high level (and 5th to 15th isn't the full span, either).&nbsp; Most times I've played high-level campaigns, it's because that's where the campaign started.&nbsp; Combine that with the fact that most DMs seem to want to start at 1st level, and you end up playing low-mid level all the time.&nbsp; There are levels above 7, you know!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad&nbsp; &nbsp; :mad:"&nbsp; data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />&nbsp; I think that the super-long-running campaign is a great thing to aspire to, but not a practical expectation for the majority of groups out there, and not a good thing to base the default rules on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IceFractal, post: 3962313, member: 27704"] Advancing even every two sessions isn't as fast as you might think. Let's consider a group that plays once every two weeks (or once every week but with two alternating campaigns). For them to go from 1st to 30th level would be 60 sessions, aka 120 weeks, aka more than two years. How many campaigns even run [I]that[/I] long? Is it really reasonable to have the default advancement be such that most campaigns never go past 10th level? Personally, I've been in only [U]one[/U] campaign that actually went from low-level to high level (and 5th to 15th isn't the full span, either). Most times I've played high-level campaigns, it's because that's where the campaign started. Combine that with the fact that most DMs seem to want to start at 1st level, and you end up playing low-mid level all the time. There are levels above 7, you know! :mad: I think that the super-long-running campaign is a great thing to aspire to, but not a practical expectation for the majority of groups out there, and not a good thing to base the default rules on. [/QUOTE]

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