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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 3414110" data-attributes="member: 463">Just took a look through what EGG wrote - it's not terribly clear, but looks like he's just saying you can't get XP for a 2nd level until you've trained for the first, ie you're held at 1 XP below that needed to advance.&nbsp; Either that or you're held at whatever XP you were at when you gained enough XP to advance, but you're not capped at 1 point into the higher level, which could work out very harsh&nbsp; (I'm 5 XP below 12th, I kill Lolth and take her stuff, instead of getting 40,000 XP I get 6 XP).&nbsp; Still, it's clear you are never supposed to advance more than 1 level from any one XP award.As a house rule for 1e and C&amp;C, B/X etc, I think a good approach is to cap XP awards at an amount equal to whatever total amount you need for the next level.&nbsp; So if you're 1st level and need 2,000 for 2nd you can't get more than 2,000 from one award.&nbsp; If you're 2nd and need 4,000 for 3rd you can't get more than 4,000 from one award, and so on.&nbsp; Maybe an absolute cap of 100,000 for name-level PCs, even Demogorgon is only worth 74,000 per 1e DMG so that seems reasonable - these days I don't think gaining a 1 million gp gem should advance a PC 4 levels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 3414110, member: 463"] Just took a look through what EGG wrote - it's not terribly clear, but looks like he's just saying you can't get XP for a 2nd level until you've trained for the first, ie you're held at 1 XP below that needed to advance. Either that or you're held at whatever XP you were at when you gained enough XP to advance, but you're not capped at 1 point into the higher level, which could work out very harsh (I'm 5 XP below 12th, I kill Lolth and take her stuff, instead of getting 40,000 XP I get 6 XP). Still, it's clear you are never supposed to advance more than 1 level from any one XP award. As a house rule for 1e and C&C, B/X etc, I think a good approach is to cap XP awards at an amount equal to whatever total amount you need for the next level. So if you're 1st level and need 2,000 for 2nd you can't get more than 2,000 from one award. If you're 2nd and need 4,000 for 3rd you can't get more than 4,000 from one award, and so on. Maybe an absolute cap of 100,000 for name-level PCs, even Demogorgon is only worth 74,000 per 1e DMG so that seems reasonable - these days I don't think gaining a 1 million gp gem should advance a PC 4 levels. [/QUOTE]

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