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<blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 5377454" data-attributes="member: 83805">I've walked away from games where the DM was completely &quot;tone deaf&quot;&nbsp; about pacing the game, where the player characters only leveled up once a&nbsp; year (or once every two years). In practice, I've found that games with really slow leveling tend to have problems with keeping the attention of the players.&nbsp; Attrition of players becomes more of a problem, than actual burnout.&nbsp; Players who are bored out of their skulls, tend to drift off and do other things.In these really slow games, the players ended up drifting off and spending more time at the game table doing other things such as:- watching youtube videos on their laptop- playing a &quot;covert&quot; game of poker under the DM's nose- doing their taxes on their laptop- playing tetris or another video game on their laptop- paying more attention to the music playing on the stereo, than the game- smoking weed- etc ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ggroy, post: 5377454, member: 83805"] I've walked away from games where the DM was completely "tone deaf" about pacing the game, where the player characters only leveled up once a year (or once every two years). In practice, I've found that games with really slow leveling tend to have problems with keeping the attention of the players. Attrition of players becomes more of a problem, than actual burnout. Players who are bored out of their skulls, tend to drift off and do other things. In these really slow games, the players ended up drifting off and spending more time at the game table doing other things such as: - watching youtube videos on their laptop - playing a "covert" game of poker under the DM's nose - doing their taxes on their laptop - playing tetris or another video game on their laptop - paying more attention to the music playing on the stereo, than the game - smoking weed - etc ... [/QUOTE]

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