Roleplaying the Character Advancement


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Hi there.
I have been a GM for years but i am really new to roleplaying systems with leveling.

I like to add some flavour to leveling by adding small scenes for every character that advances a level.

My group consists of a paladin, a bard, a ranger and a cleric.

As for the cleric and the paladin i have decided that they will be visited in their dream by avatars of their god and be "blessed" so they have a reason to know their new spells and abilities.

I am not sure about the other too.
For the bard i think i might add an npc bard that tells her some nwe stories or teaches her new songs.
And yeah, the ranger can meet one elder ranger too, but i am not really happy with that.
I don't like training montages and it will need more game time to play those scenes as with the other two.

I would like to hear what you have come up for leveling your groups up and if hou have any tips or advice. :)

Jan


A friend ran a game based off of Beet the Vandel Buster, and when we leveled up we had to go get our new level branded onto our chest.


Usually it is occurring during a moment of stress..typically at the end of the adventure, during the climax. My players usually have there next feats and expenditure of SP planned out so they do things during the course of the game to "train" for the newly gained buffs. They even go so far with natural attribtue bumps to indicate what it is they're going to get bumped by RPing it in some - running and stamina exiercises to indicate a CON bump or lifting and hurling stones for Strength, studying tomes for Intelligence, philospohy for Wisdom, and so forth. This is nice, since when down time comes, it's a quick breeze through and then we get into the next adventure.


Perhaps the Ranger might get usful tips from an organization of some kind? A Hunting Lodge perhaps, or an order of woodsmen?

I've always kicked around the idea of a Ranger organization structured similarly to the Boy Scouts, with mottos, codes, events and "merit badges" of some style.

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