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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5664651" data-attributes="member: 8835">There's some article I read quite awhile back that talked about this concept, and it echoed principles some friends and I talked about way back when.The more frequently you play, the slower advancement should be.The less frequently you play, the faster advancement should be.This keep ups advancement moderated in frequent gaming groups, and give a sense of progresss to infrequent gaming groups.Thus, if you play every day, don't give out a lot of XP or you'll have level 20 PCs by the end of the month.If you only play once a month, consider advancing the party a level every month or two.Obviously, a GM will want to choose the rate for themselves.  The good news, you don't need to hand out +5 levels because the group only plays every six months.  The act of leveling 1 level is usually what players are looking for.  With a frequent playing group, while you're slowing things down to avoid hyper-levelism, the group is getting constant stimulous from the game itself that they shouldn't need to level constantly.I recommend this basic method, that I put in my blog somewhere:figure out how much real time to advance a level seems appropriatefigure out how many times you're gaming in that real time (Frequency)Give out roughly this much XP per PC per session: (1000 * party level) / FrequencyFor a daily gaming group, maybe leveling every 2 weeks is goodfor a weekly gaming group, maybe leveling every month is goodfor a monthly gaming group, maybe leveling every 2 months is goodfor a yearly gaming group, leveling every session is goodAs always, the preferred rate varies by group and GM.  But I think a GM should be cognizant of the math and reasoning for their chosen advancement rate.  Rather than not factoring it into how they run their game and the side effects it can cause.</blockquote>

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