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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 2902461" data-attributes="member: 2174">As far as I can remember from being on the periphery of the D&D publishing operation during the birth of third edition, the advancement rate was sped up because market research suggested most campaigns lasted only 6 months or so. The reasoning, as I remember it, was to put more of the game into that time, so that a lot of development wasn't "wasted" on levels that very few players ever achieved.The third edition experience progression is linear, rather than curved (as it had been before). These days, it ought to take just about as long to go from first to second level as it does from 18th to 19th, and that certainly was not the case in earlier editions.That's really not how Ptolus works in operation, although I wouldn't be surprised to see such a thing. Ptolus is basically Monte's attempt to model a fantasy city if the D&D rules actually governed the way things work in the world. There are invisible folks lurking in the shadows (sometimes), monsters walking the street, etc. It's actually really fun, but it is a little different from the pseudo-medieval fantasy that most of us were playing in the early 1980s.Maybe. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think your point is that first edition provided a ruleset to emulate quasi-historical medieval fantasy whereas third edition provides a set of campaign assumptions that are based on the rules. Quasi-historical fantasy seems increasingly less important these days, with Eberron being perhaps the best example.In 1e, the rules were secondary to the feel, whereas in 3rd edition the feel is secondary to the rules.Is that what you're trying to say?--Erik</blockquote>

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