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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 3148435" data-attributes="member: 24969">There are two parts to this as others have mentioned.In game, it can be too fast with teenagers becoming 20th level before hitting 20 years old. Of crouse, this would depend greatly on the campaign. If you want a campaign where this happened and it reaches an end point, it might not be a problem. If you want a sustainable campaign where you play out the lives of your characters, I'd say it is. The easiest way to get around most of this is to invoke the RAW suggested guildlines for training between levels. IIRC, it's a week per skill point or feats. A rogue of average intelligence would only go up one level every two months. At a max of six levels per year, he could still make 20th by 20 but couldn't do it in a year or two as some campaigns do.DMs have to encourage downtime and stop using rushed adventure paths where they are expected to go from CR 1 to Cr 20 challenges within a year of game time. A DM could just state "time passes" but I often find that the PCs will want to do things in that time, even reasonable things like role playing character development stuff. Other ways to pad time is for item creation and spell research. Make them wait for items to be made before they can used them and they'll postpone adventuring till their new toys are ready. Perhaps ecourage PCs to come up with their own feats in exchange for down time spent developing them. Come up with some rules for businesses that reward players enough to take downtime. Introduce travel times to the adventures. There are lots of ways to get the game time between levels to be longer and still keep the players interests.As for mechanically, I also think the progress between levels is too quick. One year of weekly four hour play is what I could consider causual gaming. I don't think higher levels should always be reached in that time period. Many of the serious campaigns I've played in have consisted of 8-12 hours of weekly gaming for two years. I don't want to see those develop into what I would consider silly epic campaigns in a quarter of that time. The one things I wish Unearthed Arcana had done is propose different XP tables for different style of games. I prefer a more logarythmic table where advancement at lower levels is about the same as now but it grows quickly between the higher levels providing for a longer campaign life.</blockquote>

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