Von Ether said:In my longest 3.0 game, we went from 1st to 16th, with weekly game sessions, in about two years.
Has anyone played the game long enough to get the gist of how fast level advancement is with 4.0?
Well according to the DMG it takes about a half hour to start up and a half hour to end. So assuming that an encounter takes about 1 hour, a 6 hour session should get you through about 5 encounters. If you have one of those 6 hour sessions a week it will take you 60 weeks to go from 1st to 30th (with 10 encounters at 30th). In other words about a year and two months of real time.Otterscrubber said:In 4 weeks of play we are almost 3rd level. Not a large sample size for sure, but if that gives you any idea at all....
We seems to level faster as we get the combat system down. Our first session took us a long time to get 3 done. Our last session we were able to get in 5, and some of them were more complicated/larger than previous ones.
Otterscrubber said:In 4 weeks of play we are almost 3rd level. Not a large sample size for sure, but if that gives you any idea at all....
We seems to level faster as we get the combat system down. Our first session took us a long time to get 3 done. Our last session we were able to get in 5, and some of them were more complicated/larger than previous ones.
Engilbrand said:And that STILL feels like a long time to me. Then again, I've never really been in a long running campaign for more than a few months, even if it was really good. And once a week!? Not since college. I'm hoping to start an every other week this Friday. Following the formula just put down, that's going to be 2 years and 4 months to finish.
Damn...
Verdande said:About as fast as you want it to be?
I do recall seeing somewhere that the classes are designed so that you get a level every one or two sessions, but that obviously depends on the factors Nifft outlined above. Obviously, if you are a hardcore dungeon crawler, you'll level fast, but if you're knee-deep in talking to innkeepers and court intrigue, it'll take much longer.