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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seregil" data-source="post: 5876713" data-attributes="member: 38425">Some of you seem to have missed a basic condition of the poll: "strictly by-the-book D&D campaign".According to 4e, 10 encounters per level are necessary.That's the "by the book" part. Change it if you want, but that is not what the poll is asking. To be honest, I think they are trying, in a way, to nail down how much of your game is spent outside combat. If your XP table is known, if the number of encounters to level is known and if you have a good handle on how long your average battle lasts, then the only variable you lack to know how much real time is needed to level is how much time is spent OUTSIDE combat. Ask the question over ten levels and everything averages out.Looking at my Obsidian Portal site, I can see that we started my current campaign in March 2010 and we have played 25 sessions. My group is now level 7 but we alternate campaigns with another game we play, so assume we play once month for about 4 hours.That would mean we level every 3.5 sessions, or about every 15 hours. By their yardstick (104 hours a year),  it would take us 17 months to reach level 10.However, my gut tells me we are going slower than we used to. 4E combat is slower than 3.5, so I answered 1 year to the poll because that is what seems about right based on my experience from 1e, 2e, 3.x and 4e.</blockquote>