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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theo R Cwithin" data-source="post: 5309601" data-attributes="member: 75712">I suspect that rejiggering 3.x so the sweet-spot happens around 10th would be difficult, mainly because there will be a lot of fiddly bits to consider with the changed character/class levels.  You'll have to rescale monsters and spells as well.If you're just interested in the granularity, I'll second Stream's suggestion of "half-levels" under the current system.  To preserve the feeling of "levelling",  a full class level can be split into two parts that isn't acquired all at once.  Rather, part (perhaps BAB, saves, skills, and certain class features?) comes at the beginning of the level; and the rest (perhaps HD, feats, other class features, character-level dependent advances?) comes half-way through the level.It's peculiar, of course, in that you'd see a level advancement like 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, ....  but it does have the granularity of 10 levels, without forcing you to tinker with the numbers in the rest of the game to maintain balance.  Imho, it works nicely as a way to "stretch" an E6 game into one with 12+ virtual levels; maybe it would work for your Conan d20 game.You could try doing a similar thing on integer levels, so that 5th level effectively rescales to 10th.  But this significantly changes the mathematical meaning of "level" in certain instances such as DCs, caster level checks or qualifying for PrCs. It also requires a rethink of multi-classing, monster CRs, spell casting, and so on.  Basically, I'm guessing there'd be a cascade of unforeseen little mathematical bits to deal with all throughout the game. It's definitely doable, but requires some heavy-duty testing to catch everything.  If you're aiming for publication, maybe this is the preferred route; but as a houserule, I'd just use half-levels since that's probably the most straightforward and least unbalancing.</blockquote>

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