Wicht
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Actually they are not, its the 1st level villager assumption thats broken.
I am trying to plan out an elvish village with some detail concerning some of the elvish NPCs. Specifically, I was trying to figure out what the average level of the typical average elvish hunter should be. Being Charitable, I decided to make the average be about 100 years experience of hunting. Then I looked up the statistics for a deer as my base. This is only fair as deer is what is normally hunted in forest climes in order to provide meat. The deer in Dangerous Denizens has a CR of 1 or 300 experience for a 1st – 6th level character.
This means if a 1rst level hunter had no luck and only managed to get 2 deer a year he would still be level 2 within 2 years with 1200 experience. Keeping the number of deer at 2 a year for a moment, in 3 more years he would be level 3 with 3000 experience. So we have the typical hunter being 3rd level within 5 years. Assuming his improved skill can net him at least 5 deer a year now he would be level 4 within only 2 more years (6000 exp total).
7 years hunting equals level 4 hunter pretty easy.
We will assume that he can continue to kill 5 deer a year easily. This means that he is level 5 in three more years (10500 exp) and level 6 three years after that (15,000 exp).
An elf who has been hunting deer for only 13 years should be ashamed of himself if he is not 6th level.
17 years of experience should see him into his 7th level (at 5 deer a year) with 21,000 experience.
Deer are now worth 263 experience points each and our elf needs 7000 experience in order to level up. This should take him 6 years (28890 experience total). This makes deer worth only 200 experience each which means that it will take him another 8 years or so to get to 9th level (36,890 experience total) at which point deer are worth no more experience.
The upshot of this though is that after 31 years of hunting deer (a piddly amount of time for your average elf), the elf should by at least a 9th level hunter of some sort.
So my problem is, should I use DM fiat to make most of the elves 5th level experts, which is what I was originally going to go with, or be more fair and make them mostly 9th level. Considering I was planning on having 50 or so experienced elven hunters in this village, this means that the village would easily have 50 9th level Expert archers.
I am trying to plan out an elvish village with some detail concerning some of the elvish NPCs. Specifically, I was trying to figure out what the average level of the typical average elvish hunter should be. Being Charitable, I decided to make the average be about 100 years experience of hunting. Then I looked up the statistics for a deer as my base. This is only fair as deer is what is normally hunted in forest climes in order to provide meat. The deer in Dangerous Denizens has a CR of 1 or 300 experience for a 1st – 6th level character.
This means if a 1rst level hunter had no luck and only managed to get 2 deer a year he would still be level 2 within 2 years with 1200 experience. Keeping the number of deer at 2 a year for a moment, in 3 more years he would be level 3 with 3000 experience. So we have the typical hunter being 3rd level within 5 years. Assuming his improved skill can net him at least 5 deer a year now he would be level 4 within only 2 more years (6000 exp total).
7 years hunting equals level 4 hunter pretty easy.
We will assume that he can continue to kill 5 deer a year easily. This means that he is level 5 in three more years (10500 exp) and level 6 three years after that (15,000 exp).
An elf who has been hunting deer for only 13 years should be ashamed of himself if he is not 6th level.
17 years of experience should see him into his 7th level (at 5 deer a year) with 21,000 experience.
Deer are now worth 263 experience points each and our elf needs 7000 experience in order to level up. This should take him 6 years (28890 experience total). This makes deer worth only 200 experience each which means that it will take him another 8 years or so to get to 9th level (36,890 experience total) at which point deer are worth no more experience.
The upshot of this though is that after 31 years of hunting deer (a piddly amount of time for your average elf), the elf should by at least a 9th level hunter of some sort.
So my problem is, should I use DM fiat to make most of the elves 5th level experts, which is what I was originally going to go with, or be more fair and make them mostly 9th level. Considering I was planning on having 50 or so experienced elven hunters in this village, this means that the village would easily have 50 9th level Expert archers.
