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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 15534" data-attributes="member: 319">I have it happen automatically - generally at the end of (or in between) sessions, but occasionally in between encounters if I feel the plot would be better served if they leveled up before advancing to the next part of the adventure.I mainly do it this way because I deeply dislike the whole "Well, we just spent three weeks chasing through Abomination-Infested Mountains battling the Unspeakable Evil every step of the way, and now that we have destroyed Its main stronghold we'll give It a fair chance to regroup as we settle down for several weeks of intensive combat training and library research, and maybe make some magical codpieces while we're at it." thing and prefer the "Ok, three days of ale, whores and sleeping 12 hours during the day, and then we're after them again." approach. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The only exceptions I make occur when the character wants to switch to a completely different class, or wants to pick up a brand new skill that no one else in the party knows or to advance in one that would be physically impossible to practice during the adventure (swimming while adventuring in a desert, learning Knowledge: Planes or Alchemy from scratch, etc.), and hasn't role-played these new interests in any way ahead of time, but that's it. Even when I do require people to learn something, I try to avoid making the whole thing too formal (calculating days of study required, finding the cliched and generally completely anachronistic trainer, paying gold for the privilige of advancing a level, and so on) - I think it all sort of borders on the absurd.  Just wing it depending on where your characters are and how you could use whathever learning they're about to receive to advance the plot.Edit: Case in point... See above post.  Hate those short-post people always getting their stuff in while I'm still typing... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> Gee, eight weeks of Adventurer U at how many gold a credit makes for how much in total tuition? Do you offer night courses? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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