Campaign Time verse Levels

[Crothian]

About how much time goes by in the campaign before the characters level? Do they adventure for a few weeks and then gain a level or does it take years of campaign time?

It might be interesting to hear how much time has gone bye for your character compaired to levels they have acheived. IMC it's been a little over 6 years and they've reached 9th level.

 

[Treebore]

About how much time goes by in the campaign before the characters level? Do they adventure for a few weeks and then gain a level or does it take years of campaign time?

It might be interesting to hear how much time has gone bye for your character compaired to levels they have acheived. IMC it's been a little over 6 years and they've reached 9th level.

In my current campaign it took them 16 days (campaign time) to go from first to second level.

 

[RangerWickett]

Heh, I feel pretty awful about this, but I realize that in future games I'm going to spread out adventures a bit more, chronologically, and give incentives to take time off.

In game, the campaign started on October 20th, and now it is late February of the next year. About 130 days. They've gone from 5th to 12th level. That's sort of like the U.S. Military going from sabers and cavalry charges to tactical nukes and stealth bombers, in 130 days. Four months ago, there were only a few people in the world 15th level or higher, and they were very famous. Now, in order to keep the party challenged, I'm finding myself inventing a lot more powerful people than I originally imagined.

I guess they all just leveled up really fast too. Then again, there has been a world-wide scramble to grab up positions in the power vacuum left by a coup, but still, I'd rather that much advancement had taken 5 or 10 years. Problem is, the group is used to advancing a level every 3 or 4 sessions, and I'm nearing the climax of the campaign, so it wouldn't make sense to have events slow down, would it? I guess they'll probably end at around 15th level, at which point I probably won't have had enough time to adapt to their new powers.

Oh well. It will still be fun.

 

[Dark Jezter]

In one campaign I'm playing in, the PCs gained two levels over the course of a single week.

It was a very busy week (although I will concede that the DM has been rather generous when it comes to handing out expirience rewards).

 

[Emiricol]

In one campaign I'm playing in, the PCs gained two levels over the course of a single week.

It was a very busy week (although I will concede that the DM has been rather generous when it comes to handing out expirience rewards).

Love the quotes in the sig, Dark Jezter To answer the question, in my main campaign I'd say that when we play most every week, they go up in level about once every 3 to 6 months (one or two seasons).

 

[Piratecat]

1st to 21st lvl: eleven years real time, thirteen in game time.

We play once every two weeks, and purposefully level about once every 10-12 sessions. It's a really good pace for my DMing style.

 

[Creamsteak]

My games must move quickly (playing twice a weak, 8 hour session). We went from 1st to 8th in about 4 months.

 

[Crothian]

Anyone else?

 

[Old One]

I'll play...

IMC the PCs are 5th - 7th level. We have played 29 sessions since May 2001, for 2.5 years of real time.

Game time has not advanced nearly as much...the campaign calendar has only advanced ~ 9 months. That said, advancement has slowed down considerably, so we will see how the next 2.5 years progresses !

~ Old One

 

[Zappo]

Hmm... 1st to 9th in five months or so in one campaign, and 10th to 18th in seven months in another. It's faster than I'd like, I blame it on lack of downtime.