Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
5e XP Chart Progression Question
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Gobelure" data-source="post: 6401630" data-attributes="member: 6780929"><p>The trouble while trying to "fix" the XP rating is that there is no universal way of doing this. In 5E, there is no generic rule for XP progression, the encounter XP represent more or less the strength of the PC at a given level, but from this you can't infer how long they should spend in one level before going to the next. This can only be a design decision.</p><p></p><p>From what we have now, I think there are only 3 ways to award XP everyone may agree to :</p><p>- the "by the book" formula</p><p>- the "milestone" way: In this manner, don't compute XP, just award levels when it makes sense with you campaign. For myself, I adopted this long ago and it saves me a lot of unnecessary computations</p><p>- the "constant leveling", where there are always the same number of encounters between levels</p><p></p><p>All other level-up methods will lack general consensus. Some will want to have progressively more encounters to level up, but there are plenty of way of doing this, so I doubt people will reach an agreement.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I computed for myself 2 XP charts. The first one is the constant leveling rate, set to 10 medium encounter per level. And the second is more subtle : it is a steady power increase chart, where the PC spend time to gain a level in proportion of the increase of their power.</p><p></p><p>[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500, align: center"][TR][TD]<strong>Level</strong>[/TD][TD]<strong>Total XP to reach level (official rules)</strong>[/TD][TD]<strong>Total XP to reach level (steady leveling)</strong>[/TD][TD]<strong>Total XP to reach level (steady power increase)</strong>[/TD][TD]<strong>Number of encounters corresponding to a steady power increase</strong>[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]2nd[/TD][TD]300[/TD][TD]500[/TD][TD]270[/TD][TD]5.4[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]3rd[/TD][TD]900[/TD][TD]1,500[/TD][TD]1,100[/TD][TD]8.3[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]4th[/TD][TD]2,700[/TD][TD]3,500[/TD][TD]1,800[/TD][TD]3.5[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]5th[/TD][TD]6,500[/TD][TD]6,000[/TD][TD]6,400[/TD][TD]18.4[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]6th[/TD][TD]14,000[/TD][TD]11,500[/TD][TD]10,700[/TD][TD]7.8[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]7th[/TD][TD]23,000[/TD][TD]18,000[/TD][TD]15,800[/TD][TD]7.3[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]8th[/TD][TD]34,000[/TD][TD]27,000[/TD][TD]15,800[/TD][TD]9.1[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]9th[/TD][TD]48,000[/TD][TD]37,500[/TD][TD]30,300[/TD][TD]6.5[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]10th[/TD][TD]64,000[/TD][TD]49,500[/TD][TD]40,000[/TD][TD]8.1[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]11th[/TD][TD]85,000[/TD][TD]63,500[/TD][TD]61,400[/TD][TD]15.3[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]12th[/TD][TD]100,000[/TD][TD]81,500[/TD][TD]81,500[/TD][TD]15.9[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]13th[/TD][TD]120,000[/TD][TD]104,000[/TD][TD]112,000[/TD][TD]9.8[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]14th[/TD][TD]140,000[/TD][TD]129,500[/TD][TD]137,000[/TD][TD]9.8[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]15th[/TD][TD]165,000[/TD][TD]158,000[/TD][TD]167,000[/TD][TD]10.5[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]16th[/TD][TD]195,000[/TD][TD]190,000[/TD][TD]205,000[/TD][TD]11.9[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]17th[/TD][TD]225,000[/TD][TD]226,000[/TD][TD]286,000[/TD][TD]22.5[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]18th[/TD][TD]265,000[/TD][TD]270,000[/TD][TD]327,000[/TD][TD]9.3[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]19th[/TD][TD]305,000[/TD][TD]317,500[/TD][TD]413,000[/TD][TD]18.1[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]20th[/TD][TD]355,000[/TD][TD]372,000[/TD][TD]535,000[/TD][TD]22.4[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gobelure, post: 6401630, member: 6780929"] The trouble while trying to "fix" the XP rating is that there is no universal way of doing this. In 5E, there is no generic rule for XP progression, the encounter XP represent more or less the strength of the PC at a given level, but from this you can't infer how long they should spend in one level before going to the next. This can only be a design decision. From what we have now, I think there are only 3 ways to award XP everyone may agree to : - the "by the book" formula - the "milestone" way: In this manner, don't compute XP, just award levels when it makes sense with you campaign. For myself, I adopted this long ago and it saves me a lot of unnecessary computations - the "constant leveling", where there are always the same number of encounters between levels All other level-up methods will lack general consensus. Some will want to have progressively more encounters to level up, but there are plenty of way of doing this, so I doubt people will reach an agreement. Anyway, I computed for myself 2 XP charts. The first one is the constant leveling rate, set to 10 medium encounter per level. And the second is more subtle : it is a steady power increase chart, where the PC spend time to gain a level in proportion of the increase of their power. [TABLE="class: grid, width: 500, align: center"][TR][TD][B]Level[/B][/TD][TD][B]Total XP to reach level (official rules)[/B][/TD][TD][B]Total XP to reach level (steady leveling)[/B][/TD][TD][B]Total XP to reach level (steady power increase)[/B][/TD][TD][B]Number of encounters corresponding to a steady power increase[/B][/TD][/TR][TR][TD]2nd[/TD][TD]300[/TD][TD]500[/TD][TD]270[/TD][TD]5.4[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]3rd[/TD][TD]900[/TD][TD]1,500[/TD][TD]1,100[/TD][TD]8.3[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]4th[/TD][TD]2,700[/TD][TD]3,500[/TD][TD]1,800[/TD][TD]3.5[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]5th[/TD][TD]6,500[/TD][TD]6,000[/TD][TD]6,400[/TD][TD]18.4[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]6th[/TD][TD]14,000[/TD][TD]11,500[/TD][TD]10,700[/TD][TD]7.8[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]7th[/TD][TD]23,000[/TD][TD]18,000[/TD][TD]15,800[/TD][TD]7.3[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]8th[/TD][TD]34,000[/TD][TD]27,000[/TD][TD]15,800[/TD][TD]9.1[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]9th[/TD][TD]48,000[/TD][TD]37,500[/TD][TD]30,300[/TD][TD]6.5[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]10th[/TD][TD]64,000[/TD][TD]49,500[/TD][TD]40,000[/TD][TD]8.1[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]11th[/TD][TD]85,000[/TD][TD]63,500[/TD][TD]61,400[/TD][TD]15.3[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]12th[/TD][TD]100,000[/TD][TD]81,500[/TD][TD]81,500[/TD][TD]15.9[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]13th[/TD][TD]120,000[/TD][TD]104,000[/TD][TD]112,000[/TD][TD]9.8[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]14th[/TD][TD]140,000[/TD][TD]129,500[/TD][TD]137,000[/TD][TD]9.8[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]15th[/TD][TD]165,000[/TD][TD]158,000[/TD][TD]167,000[/TD][TD]10.5[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]16th[/TD][TD]195,000[/TD][TD]190,000[/TD][TD]205,000[/TD][TD]11.9[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]17th[/TD][TD]225,000[/TD][TD]226,000[/TD][TD]286,000[/TD][TD]22.5[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]18th[/TD][TD]265,000[/TD][TD]270,000[/TD][TD]327,000[/TD][TD]9.3[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]19th[/TD][TD]305,000[/TD][TD]317,500[/TD][TD]413,000[/TD][TD]18.1[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]20th[/TD][TD]355,000[/TD][TD]372,000[/TD][TD]535,000[/TD][TD]22.4[/TD][/TR][/TABLE] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
5e XP Chart Progression Question
Top
