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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 3302178" data-attributes="member: 326">Hey there! <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=":)" />One way to do this would be to cap advancement rate in months equal to the next level.Therefore it would take 1 month to get to 1st, a further 2 to get to 2nd, 3 to get to 3rd etc.1st = 1 month training2nd = 33rd = 64th = 105th = 15 (1 year, 3 months)6 = 21 (1 year, 9 months)7 = 28 (2 years, 4 months)8 = 36 (3 years)9 = 45 (3 years, 9 months)10 = 55 (4 years, 7 months)20 = 190 (15 years, 10 months)What you could then do is change the EXP tables so that the current formula gives you the EXP needed for a months worth of adventuring.Which means you would need the experience points of a 3rd Ed. 10th-level character to actually reach 4th-level.However, while more realistic, is that necessarily more fun?There needs to be an incentive. One possibility would be to make each level mean less overall (but I think that would feel unsatisfactory). Yet another is to make the starting character far tougher* (se the Hit Dice rules below for starters). *I seem to remember the WEG Star Wars d6 was a lot like this.I already solved that problem by introducing rules which assign Hit Dice by mass into the Immortals Handbook - Epic Bestiary.A creature gets assigned hit dice equal to half its height in feet.e.g. An orc gets 3 HD, an Ogre gets 4 HD, a Hill Giant gets 5 HD. If the creature's two biggest dimensions are roughly equal (like a horse or elephant), then it gets assigned Hit Dice equal to 2/3rds its largest dimension in feet.If the creature is roughly equal in all dimensions (like a Beholder), then it gets assigned Hit Dice equal to its largest dimension in feet.Using these rules, a normal human would start with 3 HD. Which means a mob/army of humans is a lot tougher.These rules do not apply to Fey, Outsiders or Intelligent Undead. Nor do they apply to Constructs...who have Hit Dice equal to the (minimum?) caster level.</blockquote>

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