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<blockquote data-quote="Coredump" data-source="post: 6619472" data-attributes="member: 6939">I agree that is a bad practice.&nbsp; I say &quot;false dichotomoy&quot; because that is not the only choice.The better solution is to either A) Include enough content so the PCs will level as they are intended, or B) not assume they level and let two chapters/episodes be the same level.&nbsp; &nbsp;We never even saw he Perytons... should we get full XP for them? One of the Veterans ran away, do we get full XP for him? We didn't bother with the troll and drakes... do we get full XP for them?&nbsp; We could have gotten away without dealing with the BBEG, do we still get full XP? We never even *saw* he Perytons... should we get full XP for them? And even if you say *yes* to all of that.... using Milestone would almost *quadruple* the XP of the episode. (maybe up to 6X the amount if everyone shows up.)As a concept, Milestone is fine. It makes sure folks are on the same level, it lets the writers know what level to expect, it means PCs don't have to kill everything just to advance....&nbsp; But this assumes that the amount of content is about what it should be.&nbsp; In these APs it is not even close.&nbsp; Instead WotC is using the Milestone concept as a crutch to allow them to publish a *fraction* of the content needed to level to 15... and still call it a &quot;1-15&quot; AP.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Coredump, post: 6619472, member: 6939"] I agree that is a bad practice. I say "false dichotomoy" because that is not the only choice. The better solution is to either A) Include enough content so the PCs will level as they are intended, or B) not assume they level and let two chapters/episodes be the same level. We never even saw he Perytons... should we get full XP for them? One of the Veterans ran away, do we get full XP for him? We didn't bother with the troll and drakes... do we get full XP for them? We could have gotten away without dealing with the BBEG, do we still get full XP? We never even *saw* he Perytons... should we get full XP for them? And even if you say *yes* to all of that.... using Milestone would almost *quadruple* the XP of the episode. (maybe up to 6X the amount if everyone shows up.) As a concept, Milestone is fine. It makes sure folks are on the same level, it lets the writers know what level to expect, it means PCs don't have to kill everything just to advance.... But this assumes that the amount of content is about what it should be. In these APs it is not even close. Instead WotC is using the Milestone concept as a crutch to allow them to publish a *fraction* of the content needed to level to 15... and still call it a "1-15" AP. [/QUOTE]

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