This has been a discussion point on the boards before, but I can't seem to find it searching the threads.
We've been dutifully adding up experience points through chapters 1-4, and my players just humbly suggested that maybe I could just tell them when to level. Make it simpler for everybody.
Does anyone remember, or know when characters ought to be leveling in Chapters 5 and 6?
Assume they start Chapter 5 at the default 12th level.
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This has been a discussion point on the boards before, but I can't seem to find it searching the threads.
We've been dutifully adding up experience points through chapters 1-4, and my players just humbly suggested that maybe I could just tell them when to level. Make it simpler for everybody.
Does anyone remember, or know when characters ought to be leveling in Chapters 5 and 6?
Assume they start Chapter 5 at the default 12th level.
Halfway through.
That's the easy answer. Once you're halfway through chapter 5, bump them up a level. When they finish, do it again. We give each encounter an EL score for precisely this type of thing, also; when you see the ELs creeping up above the average party level, that's a good point to bump them up as well.
Halfway through.That's the easy answer. Once you're halfway through chapter 5, bump them up a level. When they finish, do it again. We give each encounter an EL score for precisely this type of thing, also; when you see the ELs creeping up above the average party level, that's a good point to bump them up as well.
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You mean the modules?
For a group of 4 PC's, it went something like this for me:
Dunno if this count as a spoiler or not, so just in case:
Burnt Offerings
L2: during the Catacombs of Wrath
L3: early during Thisletop
L4: after clearing level 1 of Thistletop
The Skinsaw Murders
L5: after clearing the Hambley Farm
L6: after Foxglove Manor
L7: after the Seven's Sawmill
The Hook Mountain Massacre
L8: After the Graul Farmstead
L9: After Fort Rannick (they had NPC's with them so here the XP progression went a bit slower)
L10: After the Kreeg Clanhold
Fortress of the Stone Giants
L11: Just before entering the valley of Jorgenfist (i.e. after defeating the encounters on the Storval Plateau)
L12: After level 1 of Jorgenfist (they had NPC's with them so here the XP progression went a bit slower)
Sins of the Saviors:
L13: After killing Arkhryst
L14: After doing the wings of Greed, Wrath, Pride and Lust
That's where we are at the moment. I expect they'll probably hit L15 after the Vekker cabin in Spires of Xin-Shalast. And if they decide to go on a rampage in Xin-Shalast, they could easily gain enough XP to hit L16, (maybe even more?) since there are so many enemies in there.
My players were level 16 in the end, and they didn't clear out everything at the end, or they'd have gone into the final match with level 17 (and 9th-level magic).