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<blockquote data-quote="Randomthoughts" data-source="post: 5706873" data-attributes="member: 6681248">The players of my Dark Sun campaign seem committed to reaching level 30, so we're trying to hit that in roughly 4 years (the campaign just hit its one year anniversary with PCs at level 6 but we're currently on a break). &nbsp;I'm accelerating their levelling, roughly 1/level a session (once every 3-4 weeks). Each session is around 8 hours and have a mix of 2-3 combats, 1-3 skill challenges and the rest role-playing scenes (usually exploring backstory or a PC story-arc). I don't track XP per se, but I try to design adventures where 5-6 encounters would level a PC. I count role-playing scenes as encounters and estimate XP like they are minor or major quests (but doubling or tripling the value).&nbsp;At Paragon tier, we'll slow down a bit, maybe 1 lvl every 2 sessions. At Epic, I've planted the seeds to accelerate levelling, maybe explore the lower Epic levels slowly but then quickly accelerate through the rest until we hit 30 (as the campaign reaches its climax).&nbsp;Despite this, the chances are still 30-40% that we will. Like others have mentioned, a year into the campaign, two of my players had to leave. But the remaining 4 players still want to continue while we look for new blood.&nbsp;Doesn't hurt to try though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randomthoughts, post: 5706873, member: 6681248"] The players of my Dark Sun campaign seem committed to reaching level 30, so we're trying to hit that in roughly 4 years (the campaign just hit its one year anniversary with PCs at level 6 but we're currently on a break). I'm accelerating their levelling, roughly 1/level a session (once every 3-4 weeks). Each session is around 8 hours and have a mix of 2-3 combats, 1-3 skill challenges and the rest role-playing scenes (usually exploring backstory or a PC story-arc). I don't track XP per se, but I try to design adventures where 5-6 encounters would level a PC. I count role-playing scenes as encounters and estimate XP like they are minor or major quests (but doubling or tripling the value). At Paragon tier, we'll slow down a bit, maybe 1 lvl every 2 sessions. At Epic, I've planted the seeds to accelerate levelling, maybe explore the lower Epic levels slowly but then quickly accelerate through the rest until we hit 30 (as the campaign reaches its climax). Despite this, the chances are still 30-40% that we will. Like others have mentioned, a year into the campaign, two of my players had to leave. But the remaining 4 players still want to continue while we look for new blood. Doesn't hurt to try though ;) [/QUOTE]

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