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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 3006104" data-attributes="member: 24969">Don't know about that. I think the hitting level 20 by puberty is more a function of the rules than anything else. In the all elf game I ran, they were working for the Elven queen and she would give them elven time frames to do missions. After giving them one mission she informed them they needed to leave the city in no more than a year. THis was 1E and I had house rules for skills as well as spell research. They sat around and trained in skills and researched spells such as was in Unearthed Arcana for that year. In the end, their research had to be cut short and guards escorted them to the front gate on that one year mark. From there they began adventuring again and settled down at the next large city they found to complete their research, only to continue once done. It probably took them 5 years game time to do D1-3.With the RAW, there's really no way to advance the character except through adventuring. Therefore, that's what they do. If there were other outlets in the game, then players would take them, and if these outlets took time, then hitting 20 by puberty would not be as much of an issue. As experience it currently gained through fighting monsters and enough monsters to raise a level could be fought in a single day, advancement tends to be quick in game time.</blockquote>