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<blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 4226922" data-attributes="member: 94">No, I emailed it directly to Jason Buhlman a couple of days ago.However, I did not hear back from him, presumably because (if I may paraphrase him from his blog) he is trying to get the next alpha out and he has literally thousands of emails and forum posts to comb through.At the time I also suggested a couple of other things to Jason that I did not include in my initial post here, chief of which is changing the &quot;base&quot; XP from 400 to 240.<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">240 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10. It makes it easy to calculate the XP values of creatures less than CR1 without any rounding off. </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's also easier to divide that XP award equally among a greater number of typical party sizes (obviously missing only 7 and 9). (If you have 11 or more PCs in your party, you need to share some players around, you greedy prick.)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you use 240 as the baseline XP, and following Pathfinder's advancement assumptions of 20 average encounters or 13.33 challenging encounters, then the Character Advancement table looks like this (the 3rd column is rounded to the nearest 500 xp): 
 
[code]Level&nbsp; &nbsp; XP req.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (rounded) 
1&nbsp; &nbsp; 0&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 0 
2&nbsp; &nbsp; 1,200&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1,000 
3&nbsp; &nbsp; 3,000&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 3,000 
4&nbsp; &nbsp; 5,400&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 5,500 
5&nbsp; &nbsp; 9,000&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 9,000 
6&nbsp; &nbsp; 13,800&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 14,000 
7&nbsp; &nbsp; 21,000&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 21,000 
8&nbsp; &nbsp; 30,600&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 30,500 
9&nbsp; &nbsp; 45,000&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 45,000 
10&nbsp; &nbsp; 64,200&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 64,000 
11&nbsp; &nbsp; 93,000&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 93,000 
12&nbsp; &nbsp; 131,400&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 131,500 
13&nbsp; &nbsp; 189,000&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 189,000 
14&nbsp; &nbsp; 265,800&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 266,000 
15&nbsp; &nbsp; 381,000&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 381,000 
16&nbsp; &nbsp; 534,600&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 534,500 
17&nbsp; &nbsp; 765,000&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 765,000 
18&nbsp; &nbsp; 1,072,200&nbsp; &nbsp; 1,072,000 
19&nbsp; &nbsp; 1,533,000&nbsp; &nbsp; 1,533,000 
20&nbsp; &nbsp; 2,147,400&nbsp; &nbsp; 2,147,500 
[/code] 
 
If you change the base value from 400 to 240, the other tables change as well, obviously, but the format is the same.</li>
</ul>Anyhow, I posted this here for comment, and in the hopes it might raise the profile a bit. Obviously I have a vested interest in making sure that the things I am working on are as compatible with Pathfinder as possible. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wulf Ratbane, post: 4226922, member: 94"] No, I emailed it directly to Jason Buhlman a couple of days ago. However, I did not hear back from him, presumably because (if I may paraphrase him from his blog) he is trying to get the next alpha out and he has literally thousands of emails and forum posts to comb through. At the time I also suggested a couple of other things to Jason that I did not include in my initial post here, chief of which is changing the "base" XP from 400 to 240. [list] [*]240 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10. It makes it easy to calculate the XP values of creatures less than CR1 without any rounding off. [*]It's also easier to divide that XP award equally among a greater number of typical party sizes (obviously missing only 7 and 9). (If you have 11 or more PCs in your party, you need to share some players around, you greedy prick.) [*]If you use 240 as the baseline XP, and following Pathfinder's advancement assumptions of [b]20[/b] [i]average[/i] encounters or [b]13.33[/b] [i]challenging[/i] encounters, then the Character Advancement table looks like this (the 3rd column is rounded to the nearest 500 xp): [code]Level XP req. (rounded) 1 0 0 2 1,200 1,000 3 3,000 3,000 4 5,400 5,500 5 9,000 9,000 6 13,800 14,000 7 21,000 21,000 8 30,600 30,500 9 45,000 45,000 10 64,200 64,000 11 93,000 93,000 12 131,400 131,500 13 189,000 189,000 14 265,800 266,000 15 381,000 381,000 16 534,600 534,500 17 765,000 765,000 18 1,072,200 1,072,000 19 1,533,000 1,533,000 20 2,147,400 2,147,500 [/code] If you change the base value from 400 to 240, the other tables change as well, obviously, but the format is the same. [/list] Anyhow, I posted this here for comment, and in the hopes it might raise the profile a bit. Obviously I have a vested interest in making sure that the things I am working on are as compatible with Pathfinder as possible. ;) [/QUOTE]

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