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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 9887433" data-attributes="member: 205">My gut feeling here.1)  Keep the classic numbers for level 2 (2500 for MU, 2000 for fighter, etc.)  Keep the doubling until around level 5 for everyone.2)  Have every class gain HD until 10, then go static HP increase.  More elegance with pretty much no flavor loss.3)  Take a look at the growth rate over a level range for each class.  5-10, 10-15, 15-20, or something equivalent.  Apply some kind of scale to how much that growth should cost over that level range.  I don't think it should approach the scaling of fighters (31x experience to get from 5 to 10) or clerics (almost 34x over the same level range), but closer to MU (12.5x) or thief (16x).  Highly quadratic classes (like the MU) probably need a larger multiplier to account for their superior progression.4)  Apply a multiplier to the 5th level base, roughly equal to the 5th root of the multiplier, and smooth to get to level 10.  Repeat for 15 and 20, based on a relative determination of their power growth rate over the same time frame.</blockquote>