Leveling by fiat advice

[CervanteDemorte]

Hello, fairly new DM here looking advice on when players should level throughout the story without calculating xp rewards. Any advice would be appreciated.

[James B. Cline]

Yeah I don't use xp either, you can search the archives under each AP, for this result I used "level up points". I also used this one as a guide when I ran the AP.

Sean Mahoney wrote:

Werecorpse wrote:

I am running RoTRL and have just decided to do away with exp points and level up when it seems appropriate.

Does anyone know of a location of detailed suggestions for when to 'level up'?

I figured I would give this one it's own thread so as to not threadjack others.

I used this method when I ran SCAP (my first real time running a campaign as a DM) and it worked fantastically. I figured that this time I would use XP... and I am finding it is coming out to be almost the identical point I would have picked so far.

Anyway, I figured I would give this a stab for you since it will make my life of judging if they need a side trek easier as well.

Level 2 - Before Heading into the Catacombs of Wrath

Level 3 - Just before Thistletop

Level 4 - End of Burnt Offerings

Level 5 - Just before Misgivings

Level 6 - End of Misgivings

Level 7 - End of Skinsaw Murders

Level 8 - After Graul Farmstead

Level 9 - After retaking the Fort
(Maybe after the damn?)

Level 10 - End of Hook Mountain Massacre

Level 11 - Reaching Jorgenfist
(by XP I am guessing they would be part way through Jorgenfist, but I like the cleaner cut off point when using this method)

Level 12 - End of Fortress of the Stone Giants

Level 13 - Entering the Runeforge
(Like above, they would likely level within the runforge, but I like the cleaner line; that and if you add in a lot of RP like I do then there is a bigger lag caused by the time all that takes)

Level 14 - End of Sins of the Saviors

Level 15 - Entering the Pinnacle of Avarice

Level 16 - Beginning fight with Karzoug

Anyway... that is my suggestion roughly. I can only confirm the first three right now (my party is in Thistletop) as I didn't actually do any of the math to see where things happen, but looked for good story points.

Sean Mahoney

[CervanteDemorte]

Thank you, this should work nicely. :)

[Patrick Harris @ MU]

Does this change from the OGL version to the Anniversary Edition?

[Patrick Harris @ MU]

Oh, hey! This is actually in the book. Nevermind, then.