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Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
Answering for AD&D 2nd, not sure if that's useful.
You didn't get level until you trained, but XP wasn't capped until 1 point before the next level. So you didn't lose it. Since it took a year of play to level that wasn't a big deal.
DM came up with additional houserules in case you are interested. You needed a trainer at least 1 (2?) levels higher until name level. After that you could train yourself at double the time if you couldn't find a trainer. Oh, and no idea if we used the standard time or not, I think we used 1d4 weeks per level which would be brutal except we all had a lot of downtime activities to do, like spell research and building castles.
You didn't get level until you trained, but XP wasn't capped until 1 point before the next level. So you didn't lose it. Since it took a year of play to level that wasn't a big deal.
DM came up with additional houserules in case you are interested. You needed a trainer at least 1 (2?) levels higher until name level. After that you could train yourself at double the time if you couldn't find a trainer. Oh, and no idea if we used the standard time or not, I think we used 1d4 weeks per level which would be brutal except we all had a lot of downtime activities to do, like spell research and building castles.