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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Levitator" data-source="post: 3743471" data-attributes="member: 40099">I started a barbarian in 6th grade (1981ish) and ran him from 1st to 16th and retired him my junior year (1986ish).  What's really strange in looking back, we gamed at least a couple a times a week, with some sessions going well past 10-12 hours, and it still took about 5 years to get to 16th level.  It definitely seems like progression was slower in earlier editions of D&D compared to 3.5.My players have a feel for slower progression, because our current campaign is 2x Core.  Even at that, they've gone from 2nd to 5th in 11 sessions, and we don't play nearly as long as we did in high school.</blockquote>