How fast do you level in 3.x? (read before you vote)

[WayneLigon]

In the new campaign, I'll be paying more attention to the statistics, just to have a reference point later. The last long game I did had about 65 sessions (weekly, with maybe... three or four weeks where we didn't play) and they went from 1st to 15th-16th level; we play 4-5 hours a session but we tend to have somewhat more than the 'standard' number of encounters.

 

[Shadowslayer]

We level up pretty much once per night. But we play for 7 or 8 hours only once a month, and its mostly dungeon bashing. It should take a year to get to 12th level, so its not too fast for us.

 

[Gundark]

we're high level and we don't have a lot of hour to play in our sessions...so I voted 4 sessions

 

[Gundark]

Once every 10 sessions or so. The sessions are about 6 hours long.

EDIT: So that's 15 to 20 of your sessions.

um...wow

Your not using the standard xp/leveling scheme are you?

 

[Ry]

Usually every session. I tend to send a lot of stuff at the players at once, rather than room-by-room or encounter-by-encounter. Players are more likely to be fighting a whole dungeon at once in my campaign. Sessions are 4-6 hrs.

 

[el-remmen]

um...wow

Your not using the standard xp/leveling scheme are you?

Nope. Not even close.

 

[3d6]

Hmm. It has varied quite a bit for me based on the DM. When I run a game, people generally level up every 1-2 sessions, because I run a very difficult, fast-playing hack-and-slash game. We have another DM where we made it to 9th level after two years of playing weekly, because his game was focused on the large, overarching plot of rebellion and war, which was primarily politicking.

 

[Nikosandros]

Much, much slower than any of the options... at high levels, i would say once every 30 sessions, at least.

 

[Oryan77]

We play about 8 hour sessions almost every 2 weeks. In the last year, the players have levelled twice from 6-8th lvl.

So I guess about 10 sessions a level. I give half the XP and I give even fewer xp if I thought the encounter was too easy. I also give bonus roleplay xp and adventure completion xp.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Each game session is about ~4-6 hours.

The characters generally level about every other session.

Accordingly, I respondend with "3 sessions", based on an assumption of 3-4 hour sessions..