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Message: <blockquote data-quote="turnip_farmer" data-source="post: 8358738" data-attributes="member: 7029365">It's worth noting that halving the XP will significantly slow advancement. Below is a table of the standard XP progression for 5e. The 'speed' number is just calculated by dividing the XP needed to advance to the next level by the XP budget for a medium encounter.               <table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>Level </td><td>Speed </td></tr><tr><td>1 </td><td>6,00 </td></tr><tr><td>2 </td><td>6,00 </td></tr><tr><td>3 </td><td>12,00 </td></tr><tr><td>4 </td><td>15,20 </td></tr><tr><td>5 </td><td>15,00 </td></tr><tr><td>6 </td><td>15,00 </td></tr><tr><td>7 </td><td>14,67 </td></tr><tr><td>8 </td><td>15,56 </td></tr><tr><td>9 </td><td>14,55 </td></tr><tr><td>10 </td><td>17,50 </td></tr><tr><td>11 </td><td>9,38 </td></tr><tr><td>12 </td><td>10,00 </td></tr><tr><td>13 </td><td>9,09 </td></tr><tr><td>14 </td><td>10,00 </td></tr><tr><td>15 </td><td>10,71 </td></tr><tr><td>16 </td><td>9,38 </td></tr><tr><td>17 </td><td>10,26 </td></tr><tr><td>18 </td><td>9,52 </td></tr><tr><td>19 </td><td>10,20 </td></tr></table>Now, it's clear that, with the standard XP table, things go faster after that pause at 10th level, but if you just halve XP, things will really slow down after 10th level:               <table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>11 </td><td>18,75 </td></tr><tr><td>12 </td><td>20,00 </td></tr><tr><td>13 </td><td>18,18 </td></tr><tr><td>14 </td><td>20,00 </td></tr><tr><td>15 </td><td>21,43 </td></tr><tr><td>16 </td><td>18,75 </td></tr><tr><td>17 </td><td>20,51 </td></tr><tr><td>18 </td><td>19,05 </td></tr><tr><td>19 </td><td>20,41 </td></tr></table>All the levels after 10th will take a bit longer than 10th level did. If that's what you want, then fine. But if you want advancement to proceed at the same rate as it does for the mid-levels; you want to hand out 75% of the XP, instead of half. This gives you a speed of about 15 each level.</blockquote>

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