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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thorin Stoutfoot" data-source="post: 2016595" data-attributes="member: 1887">Well, you gotta remember that for about levels 1-10 I had more than the standard number of PCs. (The game started with 7 PCs, and ended with 4 PCs) That would slow down the experience gained since the XP is split more ways. More players also mean more roleplay/interaction time, which would also tend to reduce time spent in encounters.Ostenibly we played 4 hours a week, but what with people showing up late and so forth, we really only played 3 hours a week. I also ran a few adventures that were well below the party's level, but without any adjustments so they did not gain as much XP for those. Then as someone else mentioned, there's PC deaths (which didn't slow them down as much since I pretty much let them use True Res.), which cost them significant gold, after which they got even more cautious since they knew they were underpowered with respect to the standard.One of the players predicted that I'd soon start giving all monsters max hp, but I never felt like I had to resort to that to give them a challenge (though towards the end, even the dragons had Mantle of Egregious Might on since the PCs had them too!)</blockquote>