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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 3147405" data-attributes="member: 198">Not sure if it would count as a big change in your book, but I deal with it in my Eberron campaigns as follows:Firstly, NPCs don't advance using XP. They achieve whatever level I deem appropriate for them.Secondly, XP is divorced from time and experience with adventuring. PCs advance over time mostly spent hanging around town just as much as they advance while off fighting and killing things.The way people in society understand levels (though nobody is aware of or discusses levels, there are analogues to it, due to spells of different levels, class special abilities, etc.) is that all individuals have a level of internal potential. There is no real explanation for how or when that potential is to be achieved, but it is clear that some people have huge jumps in their potential over short periods of time. Given the above, there is no problem in the existence of war veterans who are 3rd lvl Ftrs and a novice who happens to be 6th level, or PCs who jump five levels in a couple of months. People who know them and are aware of the improvement comment on it as a sign of them being special. Which is what they are.</blockquote>