Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Revinor" data-source="post: 4112002" data-attributes="member: 25037">In general, advancement rate is very easy to control. Just apply some percentage to xp gained.  Original idea was 13 encounters per level, with 3-4 encounters per session. I don't see it as very fast, this still means 70 sessions to get from 1st to 20 lvl, assuming no deaths/raise deads. If you have much more encounters per session... try to fill up the time with some non-combat related activities.In 3e, only thing which was going crazy when you played with advancement rates was treasure. If you slowed down advancement, people started to end up with too much treasure. Other way around was easier, as you could just drop some extra items/gold once per few levels to get them up to expected wealth level.We have no idea atm how the treasure system will look like in 4e, so it is hard to say how wealth will be affected. Generally, as rule of thumb, modify treasure worth same way as you do with xp and it should be ok.I'm bit suprised that you are worried about too fast advancement. Have you ever got a problem in 2/3e with running out of levels in your campaigns? I have just finished DMing 3+ years (real life) campaign and I got my players from 4th to 18-19th levels and it is only time in our lives we came close to that range. We probably played around 40-50 sessions, but bit longer than usual (around 12 hours each). Previously, campaigns were always dying long before reaching 10th lvl (it was 2nd edition back then). Most common reason (I'm not saying it is your case) from slowing down advancement is because DM has no clue how to run the campaigns on high levels. Creative players with few splat books will work around every normal scenario in no time. Game becomes majorly broken at high levels mechanically, but it is still fun.</blockquote>

Verification