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<blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 604473" data-attributes="member: 1331">In most campaigns, you need to spend time training in order to advance a level. Gaining that last XP doesn't instantly make you more powerful. If you reached exactly 15,000 XP and then immediately got killed, you would still drop to the same 8000 upon being Raised. It's only after the days or weeks of training that you would become level 6, and be able to die and raise at that 12,500 XP.The obvious next question is, why can you train to level up at exactly 15k, but not at 15k-1. The answer is that D&amp;D has discrete levels, so there has to be a hard cutoff someplace. There's no such thing as being &quot;level 14.9&quot;; you're either on one step or the other.(I've been thinking about this too, because my PC just died for the second time since Christmas. First a black dragon, then a white dragon... I really need to quit my &quot;getting eaten by lizards&quot; habit.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AuraSeer, post: 604473, member: 1331"] In most campaigns, you need to spend time training in order to advance a level. Gaining that last XP doesn't instantly make you more powerful. If you reached exactly 15,000 XP and then immediately got killed, you would still drop to the same 8000 upon being [i]Raised[/i]. It's only after the days or weeks of training that you would become level 6, and be able to die and [i]raise[/i] at that 12,500 XP. The obvious next question is, why can you train to level up at exactly 15k, but not at 15k-1. The answer is that D&D has discrete levels, so there has to be a hard cutoff someplace. There's no such thing as being "level 14.9"; you're either on one step or the other. (I've been thinking about this too, because my PC just died for the second time since Christmas. First a black dragon, then a white dragon... I really need to quit my "getting eaten by lizards" habit.) [/QUOTE]

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