FormerlyHemlock
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Looking at how much XP you got for "encounters" or "monsters" across the editions, I thought it interesting to translate those XP advancement tables to 5th edition. Here's the guidelines I've used:
- AD&D (1e and 2e): roughly assumed each PC fought 3.33 "at level" monsters per level until around level 7 and 8 at which time it assumed you fought 6.66 "at-level" monsters per level.
That's not right at all. IIRC an orc in 2nd edition would grant you 7 XP. A thief needed to either kill 178 orcs, or steal a lot of treasure (thieves got XP for stealing treasure, off the individual class XP award table) in order to hit 1250 XP and second level. A fighter needed to kill 19 orcs (he got 107 XP per orc, 7 XP for the orc + 100 XP off the fighter individual XP award). A wizard mostly needed to cast a bunch of spells, but if he were killing orcs with a crossbow or something he needed to kill 357 orcs in order to hit second level.
If your input assumptions are wrong, your analysis cannot be correct. I controvert your assumptions for AD&D2--so your conclusions are probably invalid for AD&D (2nd edition).
By my math above, since orcs are 100 XP in 5E instead of 7, an AD&D2-ized 5E thief needs somewhere between 0 and 17,800 XP to hit second level; a wizard needs between 0 and 35,700 XP; and a fighter needs 1900 XP.
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