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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5197702" data-attributes="member: 29398">There's various other ways to achieve the same thing; of slowing down the level advance speed with respect to time in the game world.The simplest, for lower-level parties, is travel time.  Don't have one adventure waiting right around the corner from the next.  Separate them by enough distance that it's going to take a few months or more to get from one to the next.  "Isle of Dread" is a good example: if you set it up such that it takes a 3-month boat trip to get there (and of course another 3 months to get back) then the party has only gained a level or two in half a year...or longer, if you manage to throw some delays in their way.  Best thing is, this doesn't even need any house rules to achieve!Next-easiest is enforced down-time between adventures.  There's three obvious ways of achieving this:1. Training.  This requires house rules post 1e.2. Treasury division.  If it's made difficult to divide treasure (e.g. need to travel to get items identified, find buyers/sellers, etc.) that can eat up time.  Needs house rules mostly in terms of campaign flavour.3. Rest and recovery.  Requires house rules; but make it that someone needs a certain amount of stress-reduced 'downtime' between adventures in order to remain sane, functional, etc.And last but not least there's slowing the advancement rate, either by reducing the amount of ExP given out or increasing the distance between bump points on the advancement table(s). (or in 1e removing ExP for g.p.)  This becomes a houserule in every version except - from what I'm reading here - Pathfinder, where I'm led to believe it's an official option (and good on 'em for it, if true).  Be warned that over time this has a very significant knock-on effect, particularly in 3-4e where such things matter more: unless you really Grinch the treasure (which is no fun for anybody) the characters become too rich.In our 1e games this last is what we've done, character wealth be damned; and it's taken the overall advancement rate down to about a level or two per in-game year.  Some individual characters go faster, others slower, depending on a host of things, but the average is surprisingly consistent over multiple campaigns with different DMs.  And while we have training requirements, there's sometimes very little downtime between adventures - that said, sometimes they can spend half a game-year completing an adventure anyway, so it all works out. <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=":)" />Lan-"10 levels in about 12 game years and 26 real years - slow but sure"-efan</blockquote>

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