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<blockquote data-quote="Joe Liker" data-source="post: 6450586" data-attributes="member: 6777505">Many DMs don't use &quot;party level.&quot; Such a thing has not been encouraged in the rules so far, and the rules for building encounters go out of their way to tell you how to deal with a party where the PCs are different levels.As mentioned by others, bounded accuracy makes this OK. It really isn't super harsh. A level 1 character really can contribute meaningfully even if his friends are level 10.It takes 21,000 XP to rise from level 10 to level 11. With the same amount of XP, a level 1 character will become level 6 -- very nearly level 7. Then it's another 15,000 XP to get to 12. (Yes, D&amp;D has a hell level, and level 10 is it!) This would put the lower-level character at 36,000 = level 8. He may never truly catch up, but he's closing the gap rather quickly!Having party members of varying levels is built into the XP table. Making a dead guy start over at level 1 is a perfectly reasonable penalty for getting killed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Joe Liker, post: 6450586, member: 6777505"] Many DMs don't use "party level." Such a thing has not been encouraged in the rules so far, and the rules for building encounters go out of their way to tell you how to deal with a party where the PCs are different levels. As mentioned by others, bounded accuracy makes this OK. It really isn't super harsh. A level 1 character really can contribute meaningfully even if his friends are level 10. It takes 21,000 XP to rise from level 10 to level 11. With the same amount of XP, a level 1 character will become level 6 -- very nearly level 7. Then it's another 15,000 XP to get to 12. (Yes, D&D has a hell level, and level 10 is it!) This would put the lower-level character at 36,000 = level 8. He may never truly catch up, but he's closing the gap rather quickly! Having party members of varying levels is built into the XP table. Making a dead guy start over at level 1 is a perfectly reasonable penalty for getting killed. [/QUOTE]

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