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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8641924" data-attributes="member: 87792">Oof. There is a reason it only takes 300 XP to reach level 2 and 900 XP to reach level 3. And if we look at DMG page 261 &quot;a good rate of session based advancement is to have characters reach 2nd level after the first session and 3rd level after another session&quot;. Also the XP to reach level 2 is one single adventuring day's worth - and the XP to get from level 2 to 3 is also a single adventuring day's worth.I'm slightly slower; I expect to have my players only reach level 1 at the end of the first session. Level 2 after 1-2 more sessions and level 3 after 2-3 further sessions but that's both slow and in all three campaigns has involved players brand new to D&amp;D and non-newbies playing classes they've never played before (and sometimes haven't researched despite the class fitting them like a glove). If I were playing with all veterans who were responding fast and knew what their characters could do [/rant] I really wouldn't want to spend more than 3 sessions at levels 1-2I will also say that Fytor who despite intended to be a fighter became a paladin because he literally told a demon to go back to hell in the course of the first session tends to be more interesting to the player than Fytor #23 who was just chosen out of a list of abstract options and the player is more invested in them in my experience regardless of how many previous characters they've played.And I'm all in favour of this <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8641924, member: 87792"] Oof. There is a reason it only takes 300 XP to reach level 2 and 900 XP to reach level 3. And if we look at DMG page 261 "a good rate of session based advancement is to have characters reach 2nd level after the first session and 3rd level after another session". Also the XP to reach level 2 is one single adventuring day's worth - and the XP to get from level 2 to 3 is also a single adventuring day's worth. I'm slightly slower; I expect to have my players only reach level 1 at the end of the first session. Level 2 after 1-2 more sessions and level 3 after 2-3 further sessions but that's both slow and in all three campaigns has involved players brand new to D&D and non-newbies playing classes they've never played before (and sometimes haven't researched despite the class fitting them like a glove). If I were playing with all veterans who were responding fast and knew what their characters could do [/rant] I really wouldn't want to spend more than 3 sessions at levels 1-2 I will also say that Fytor who despite intended to be a fighter became a paladin because he literally told a demon to go back to hell in the course of the first session tends to be more interesting to the player than Fytor #23 who was just chosen out of a list of abstract options and the player is more invested in them in my experience regardless of how many previous characters they've played. And I'm all in favour of this :) [/QUOTE]

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