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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sentack" data-source="post: 5457693" data-attributes="member: 69402">If you go by the 4E DMG1, but I won't swear to this, it appears wizards expects you should have a 5-6 hour session a week.  The players should earn about 1 encounters worth of exp an hour.  And it takes about 8-12 encounters to go up a level, average 10.  So by that standard, you should be leveling up every other week, effectively.  About 60% is to come from Encounters, 30% from Skill Challenges and 10% from Quests.  Give or take 10%, of course.That's the rough estimate.In general, Wizards seems to think that the average group should reach 30 in 1 year of play.I doubt most groups reach Paragon in 1 year of play.The average group I've seen, runs combat 2 encounters a night with maybe 1 skill challenge or quest reward.That averages to about combat 100 encounters, maybe a hand full of skill challenges (Because most experiment with them and find them lacking) and a lot of people just give out "Quest" experience when the group is short for the next level.That usually comes out to about one 'tier' a year.  Level 30 just after 3 years.That seems more realistic, but at the same time, I see a lot more people these days that want to experiment with different classes, different character types, and just try different styles of games.  That being said, spending 3 years on one game seems a hell of a long time.  1 year seems sort of long even.  Lately, I've seen players that want to quickly move on from one game, and jump into something new.  So faster leveling and more concentrated story arcs are becoming more common.</blockquote>

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