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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 171250" data-attributes="member: 4134">You seem to advance pretty slow. We're playing for half a year now, Usually every week (although there are 6 or so sessions that were cancelled), usually 4 hours. And we're level 10 (and likely going to level-up next time).OK, we're only 3 characters +DM, our DM is generous and we are fighting quite frequantly, but your awards still sound pretty little!As you're a level 7 party, you'd get monster XP according to the 7th-level column of the tables, just as a "standard" 4-char-party, only that you have to share it among 7 players, not just four.Are there many battles in your campaign? Are those challenging battles? (one CR 7 monster maybe a normal challenge for a 4-player-party, but your party should need two such beasts in order to be challenged. You should even be able to fight 7 such monsters, though that would be a close call. but for a standard party, that would be certain death).Tell us some details about your campaign (play stile, how you rolled your ability scores etc...) so we can better imagine what would be the norm for the campaign.Also, there's always the consideration that XP awards are designed in order to make the standard party level up every 13.3 encounters. Make that 3 to 4 encounters per game session, two sessions per week, and you should level up every two months. Now considering that you play 3 times a  month, not just twice, and you're playing 6-8 hours (I think that the usual is 4-5) and you should be able to level up once a month (it should not matter that you're 7 characters instead of the standard 4, as a challenging encounter for you consists of more monsters, which in turn give you more XP). And those considerations don't even take XP awards for roleplaying or adventures into consideration (and those are pretty common). So, I'd call it normal if you advance twice over the course of 3 months, or 8 levels a year. So if we assume that you started the campaign in october 2000, you had about 18 months of action and should be around level 12. I'd consider everything below level 10 slow, maybe even to slow.</blockquote>

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