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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4032437" data-attributes="member: 18280">First off, I second those who have said to get the NPCs more involved.  NPCs have motives -- decide what they are, decide what they might want to use the PCs for to gain those goals, and go to town.  Make one or two real rat-bastard NPCs that the PCs can't finish off right away (for whatever reason).  Think Rene Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark.  Give the players someone to hate.Create a calendar.  Events happen whether the PCs are in on them or not.  Make sure that weather happens, and that good things happen (births, marriages, holidays) as well as ill.Finally, about the 1/2 XP and slow leveling:  In 3e, you make your own magic items, you choose what spells you will learn, and you expect wealth by level.  In a real way, leveling is the reward system.  WotC has stripped the rewards of previous editions away.I advocate slower leveling myself, but to be successful with this it is important to put some non-leveling rewards back into the game.  Let the players see how their PCs impact the local area.  If level 3 is a big deal in your world, make sure the players see it is a big deal because the NPCs treat it as such.  Include some special abilities that act as rewards -- secrets that the PCs can learn without gaining levels.  For example, if one NPC likes a particular spell, let there be a reward that allows that PC to produce potions or scrolls of that spell at a significantly reduced cost.  Give PCs the chance to gain bonus skill points, skill bonuses, or even bonus feats.  Break the cycle of "character growth = leveling" and you may see this problem go away.RC</blockquote>

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