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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 3166823" data-attributes="member: 19130">Actually, I would dispute that advancement in 3.X is linear at all.  Even leaving spells to one side, keeping up at increasingly higher levels assumes a certain synergistic approach to feats, skills, and class abilities, where even though you're technically getting a linear advancement of benefits the whole is increasingly well interleaved, forming a greater-than-the-sum sort of thing.  Crucially, treasure advancement is also not at all linear - the amount of gold you're assumed to have at each new level increases by leaps and bounds and tends to increase the overall synergistic growth of a character by increasingly covering more and more weaknesses and providing more and more unique abilities as the game goes on - essentially, the treasure advancement means that everyone gets a nonlinear increase in the stuff they're able to weave together as part of the character.  More stuff equals more synergy between stuff equals a deceptively linear-looking advancement that doesn't actually play out linearly at all.  At least that's been my experience.EDIT: Oh, heh, I didn't actually answer your question.  I prefer the logarithmic advancement myself, but modified to suit the game.  I prefer a rapid advancement to the levels that define the game you're going after and then a slower advancement after that (often much slower) once characters are established at the game-defining level (which can be anywhere, really).  At least I would like that in theory, but my players have strongly resisted the idea so I keep to the default advancement in practice.</blockquote>

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