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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arrgh! Mark!" data-source="post: 2197991" data-attributes="member: 14559">You know, it's kind of odd. It really depends on the DM.I only ever hand out story awards, in the form of ticks. Every tick grants you 100 times your level experience points, and you get ticks for roleplaying. I know it's arbitrary, but no-one I've played with has ever complained. Regardless, none of us are keen for high levels quickly. So it's not too much of an issue that a game going for four or five months only has the characters at level five. Thats weekly games of approximately 4-6 hours.Note, that in game terms there has been a lot of manouvering and postering between various armies and nobles and player characters. That takes time. I think about five years has passed since the first adventure. If I deem nothing adventure-worthy or story worthy happens, then I don't need to describe it day by day. The players are fine with this - but then, this might well be the players.I dislike levelling too fast game-wise. But I offset it by not letting them be at high levels until I want them there. How do I stop them? I don't give them the experience. I don't say the words "You level up." etc etc. People seem to think that roleplaying in the end is not ruled by the GM but by perfect rulesystems. Thats a lie, and the reason why some GM's complain. Why are they complaining and not thinking for themselves and changing it to how they like it? It's not hard.</blockquote>