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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9195177" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Looking at the actual XP guidelines, it seems to be possible. You divide the XP among the characters and for some bizarre reason you use the total XP of the monsters, not the XP adjusted by the difficulty rating (which seems pretty questionable to me.) I calculated the XP award per character for the first session of my campaign, taking only account the monsters they fought, and it was only 140. (EDIT: 190 XP, I forgot one encounter.)DMG says following about advancing without XP:SESSION-BASED ADVANCEMENTA good rate of session-based advancement is to havecharacters reach 2nd level after the first session of play,3rd level after another session, and 4th level after twomore sessions. Then spend two or three sessions foreach subsequent level. This rate mirrors the standardrate of advancement, assuming sessions are about fourhours long.Which is actually a bit faster than what I've been doing, but I seriously doubt that using actual XP would get us anywhere near that pace, unless one was being super generous with non-combat XP.</blockquote>