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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oryan77" data-source="post: 5681258" data-attributes="member: 18701">I hear people talking about going from 1st to 20th level or higher within a year. That baffles me. Even if I play every other week for 6-8 hours a day, I don't see how the PCs would get 20th level in a year.So I'm wondering, how many hours of gaming do you spend playing before the PC levels up?I know there are a lot of reasons that would influence the answer. This is of course "on average" and doesn't need to be an exact answer. Just a guesstimate is fine.My last campaign went about 8 years (with long breaks here and there). I ran about 10 normal sized adventures, 1 mega adventure, and dozens of side quest adventures. The highest level PC was 12 level. In game time, this all occurred in about a 6 year time span.After running the game like that, I feel it was a bit too slow I guess because I'm sure players would have liked to level faster. But as far as the game world goes, it seems about right to me. I imagine a 20th level (epic?) character would be much older and have accomplished much more to get to that point. Even an adventure path that goes from 1-20th level to become epic doesn't seem like enough "adventuring" to get godlike. But I've never ran an adventure path like that, so maybe I'd think differently if I saw it in action. As for time spent playing, with all the roleplaying, investigating, decision making, and then combat, it seems hard to level up so fast within a year. So I'm wondering how people do it. Do you just receive an enormous amount of XP per encounter? Or do you just get a lot done really fast?</blockquote>

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