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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SerHogan" data-source="post: 6889249" data-attributes="member: 6807512">I grew up on 2E and DM'ed one campaign to the point where most of the characters were levels 7 and 8.  I felt like once they reached that point however the XP required to get to level 9 was just a massive amount and prohibitive.  If I remember correctly a PC had to collect something like all the XP he had gained to that point just to get to level 9 or 8.  Getting up even higher in levels beyond 9 was seemingly impossible.  I always liked to play by the letter and spirit of the rules.  I handed out XP for combat (even going so far as to figure out how much XP each HP a monster had was worth), 1 XP per gold piece or treasure value collected, XP for magic items and weapons, XP for adventure or mission completion, good roleplaying, great ideas, etc.  I always liked how hard it was to get up to those higher levels since there really shouldn't be so many super heroes running around in a world.  5E is not nearly as hard which is cool because it's fun to get to play those powered up characters but I miss that old school approach of making you earn it.  If you got a character to level 15 or so you would have had to have played dozens and dozens of adventures in your campaign.  And lived!I was just curious how other DMs handled/handle XP and leveling up in 2E when it takes such enormous amounts of XP to level up.  Aside from doing automatic level ups after adventures or just giving the PCs tons and tons of treasure or giving them huge mission complete XP rewards how did other DMs handle this?</blockquote>

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