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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kalendraf" data-source="post: 1826066" data-attributes="member: 3433">The rogue in my weekly campaign has contracted Lycantropy (wererat).  Once the party finds out, in all likelyhood they will try to cure him of this problem, but it's very likely that this condition will persist for a few sessions before they are successful.   I'm sure this has been asked before, but how do I handle his exp in the meantime?The character was 10th level, but approaching 11th level, so I'd estimate his starting exp was approximately 53K.  According to the MM/SRD, the Wererat affliction add +2 ECL and it gets the extra HD from the rat-form.  Unless I'm misunderstanding something, his new equivalent level is: 10HD (rogue) + 1HD (rat) + 2 ECL (afflicted wererat) = 13th level.  Assuming that is correct, he'll begin earning exp as if he was a 13th level character when indexing the exp for CR table in the 3.5 DMG.But what is his current exp/next level exp?  Does the new ECL cause a shifting of his exp to map into 13th level numbers as well (78K+, and requires 91K to reach the next level).  Or does he keep using his original 53K and just need 55K to reach the next level?</blockquote>