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<blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7630791" data-attributes="member: 12377"><p>I recently ran a campaign from 1-20, and as an experiment, I awarded XP as follows:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>The first session, everybody gets 400 XP. For each subsequent session, the award increases by 400 XP (so the second session is 800 XP, the third session is 1,200 XP, the fourth is 1,600 XP, etc.).</strong></p><p></p><p>Over the long term, this produces almost exactly 2.5 sessions/level. (You can actually get closer to 2.5 sessions/level by increasing XP by 350 per session; I used 400 because the math is easier and I like slightly faster leveling.) And it worked shockingly well!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...Up until level 15 or so. The leveling definitely speeds up around level 11/12/13 and that's OK, especially since levels 8/9/10 take a little bit longer. But somehow blowing past the epic levels doesn't feel right. Getting all the way up to 17 should feel <em>hard</em>, and things should only take longer from there. So at level 15, when the XP per session was 12,000 XP, I decided not to increase it after that. This stretched out the levels to 4-5 sessions per level. This worked out great.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="77IM, post: 7630791, member: 12377"] I recently ran a campaign from 1-20, and as an experiment, I awarded XP as follows: [INDENT][B]The first session, everybody gets 400 XP. For each subsequent session, the award increases by 400 XP (so the second session is 800 XP, the third session is 1,200 XP, the fourth is 1,600 XP, etc.).[/B][/INDENT] Over the long term, this produces almost exactly 2.5 sessions/level. (You can actually get closer to 2.5 sessions/level by increasing XP by 350 per session; I used 400 because the math is easier and I like slightly faster leveling.) And it worked shockingly well! ...Up until level 15 or so. The leveling definitely speeds up around level 11/12/13 and that's OK, especially since levels 8/9/10 take a little bit longer. But somehow blowing past the epic levels doesn't feel right. Getting all the way up to 17 should feel [I]hard[/I], and things should only take longer from there. So at level 15, when the XP per session was 12,000 XP, I decided not to increase it after that. This stretched out the levels to 4-5 sessions per level. This worked out great. [/QUOTE]
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