How often do you level in 3.*e?

[Angel Tarragon]

Our group averages two levels a month currently.

That would be the 'Other' option that was left out of the poll.

 

[McBard]

Nice poll, MerricB. (I voted once per 2 weeks). However, I'd be more interested in how often a group levels up per hour of game play--this would more accurately measure how fast leveling up occurs in that campaign (i.e. "1 level/month" doesn't explain how often the group plays for how long each session). 'Course, you might have had other reasons for framing the question the way you did.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

My current group averages 1.5 games per month. We started out levelling once a month, but it has been slowing down a bit so now it is no more than once every two months.

 

[DragonLancer]

On average, I would say every 3 weeks. We play weekly 4-5 hours per week.

 

[jeffh]

I'd put the mean at around six weeks, which unfortunately is right between two of your options. Sometimes it's a little faster if there's a really big fight or something.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

It's about every four sessions for my Saturday group... We just hit level 9 in session 39. We play roughly every three weeks.

 

[Thomas Percy]

Once per month, once per 6-hour four game sessions. Bought adventures encourage me to make it more frequently, but I think 4 game sessions are perfect to enjoy and learn new level abilities.

 

[Dispari]

I find somewhat weird that (at least from an spellcaster point of view) - in game time - you have to study many years at the local academy of magic to obtain a puny first level, then once begin your adventuring career you can become an epic-level, comet-hurling, demon-banishing archmage in one/two years at most .

It seems to me the D&D is slowly "metaMMORPGing" more and more each day...

 

[maggot]

We play every other week. At 1st-4th level, we level every other session so one/month. But when I had a campaign up in th 15th level area, they levels was more like every six sessions, so about every three months. One really slow section of a campaign took around 10 sessions to level, and thus the characters were leveling twice a year.

The only complaints I heard were at the twice a year rate. No one minds cruising up levels swiftly, but taking your time when you are an established character isn't bad either.

 

[Thomas Percy]

I find somewhat weird that (at least from an spellcaster point of view) - in game time - you have to study many years at the local academy of magic to obtain a puny first level, then once begin your adventuring career you can become an epic-level, comet-hurling, demon-banishing archmage in one/two years at most .

It seems to me the D&D is slowly "metaMMORPGing" more and more each day...

It's even more weird, when one PC graduated magical academy after five years of study and another PC simply choose wizard as his new class when he advances at new level.