I'm currently running a Kingmaker game, and the party is progressing quickly through character levels. I'd like them to follow the level progression outlines at the start of each AP book.
The character level chart has Slow, Med, and Fast tracks, but they're all based on changing the amount of XP needed for specific levels, not on the amount of XP gained.
This makes it very difficult to switch gears. They're all level 4 (9,000xp) and if I switch to the Slow progression, it will take way too long to hit 5th level (23,000xp).
I'd like to alter XP gain to slow down their progression rather than jump into a different XP progress bracket. I suppose I can just reduce XP awards by 25%, but I was wondering if anyone had looked into this issue in the past and what they did about it.
Has anyone made an XP gain chart that will fit my needs?
If they're all at exactly 9000 you could just bump them up to 14000 in a one-off 'rescaling' and proceed on the slow path from there.
Why bother with an exact amount of XP anyway? Unlike in 3.0/3.5, Pathfinder XP isn't used for anything except level advancement. Instead of tracking XP, just tell them to level up when you want them too. If they are 4th level, and the next part of the AP is for 5th level characters, then just tell them to level up to 5th level.