Advancing XP for multiclassing and Prestige?

[JamesHuds]

Hey,

I have recently gotten into the world of pathfinder and have a question I cant find the answer to anywhere, or if it is I am somehow not realizing it.

What kind of xp track do multi-class and prestige class follow?

For instance, if a player got to level 12 Paladin, then decided to take his next level as a holy vindicator, does his progression through 1-10 of that new class go off the basic 1-10 xp table?

Or does it cost him the amount from 13-14 on the xp table to get to level 2 of the new prestige class.

Same question as for multi classing, if a player gets to level 10 and decided to take a level in another class, does he only need the 1-2 xp to get to level 2 of his new class, but needs the 10-11 to level his original class?

[DM Papa.DRB]

Regardless of class (Paladin, Holy Vindicator, prestige) the XP table is linear, ie. to go from [Paladin 12] to [Paladin 12 / Holy Vindicator 1] requires the XP of going from Level 12 to Level 13. Same thing for a Prestige class.

-- david

[Snowblind]

The amount of XP is completely independent from what classes the character is taking.

A level 13 character requires 315000XP on the medium progression track. It doesn't matter if that character is a level 12 paladin going to level 13 paladin, or a level 1 sorcerer/level 1 wizard/ level 1 dragon disciple/... taking their first level of Evangelist. The numbers are the same.

[Physically Unfeasible]

To be further explicit (since if I recall, xp tracks are a callback to older d&d), there's no xp penalty to multiclass.

Experience needed to level up each time is completely class-agnostic.

[JamesHuds]

God i feel foolish, i'm still not getting it, or im not asking the right way.

So if a, lets say rogue, level 13, also had ranger level 4, if he wanted to go from ranger 4-5 it would cost him the same amount as if he was going rogue 13 to 14?

And if that is the case how does someone at level 20 take a prestige class? is each level always the xp from 19-20 ?

[Milo v3]

Forget the classes. So instead of:

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So if a, lets say rogue, level 13, also had ranger level 4, if he wanted to go from ranger 4-5 it would cost him the same amount as if he was going rogue 13 to 14?

it's;

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So if a, lets say a level 17 character wanted to go from 17-18 it would cost him the same amount as if he was going 17 to 18.

It's based on character level, not class level.

[JamesHuds]

ohhh, so is character level the combination of the class levels? so a level 12 paladin/level 4 rogue is actualy Level 16, and to advance in either class would need the xp to go from 16-17?

[Milo v3]

JamesHuds wrote:

ohhh, so is character level the combination of the class levels? so a level 12 paladin/level 4 rogue is actualy Level 16, and to advance in either class would need the xp to go from 16-17?

Yep.

[JamesHuds]

Thankyou, that makes perfect sense xD, one more thing then, what is the xp advancement for people beyond level 20? or can you just not take another class/prestige class by then?

[Milo v3]

JamesHuds wrote:

Thankyou, that makes perfect sense xD, one more thing then, what is the xp advancement for people beyond level 20? or can you just not take another class/prestige class by then?

Past 20th level, the game uses slightly different rules which can be found at the bottom of this page.

But specifically for XP the ruling is:

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To gain a level beyond 20th, a character must double the experience points needed to achieve the previous level. Thus, assuming the medium XP progression, a 20th-level character needs 2,100,000 XP to become 21st level, since he needed 1,050,000 XP to reach 20th level from 19th. He'd then need 4,200,000 XP to reach 22nd level, 8,400,000 XP to reach 23rd, and so on.

[chrislafeken]

Games don't usually last past lvl20, either because the campaign ended, the insane xp to reach the next lvl, drama splits up the players, yada yada. Lvl20 is a soft cap, meaning you can get there, and there are rules to go beyond it, but it isn't likely to happen without the GM pre-planning it.

[JamesHuds]

Thanks this has been a great help, Im currently running the Rise of the Runelords campaign and we have just finished burnt offerings, my players are all long term tabletop people who have wanted to do pathfinder for ages and are really enjoying it as am I.

This question came up as the guy who plays a paladin asked about becoming a holy vindicator.

Also if when we eventually finish the campaign and they want to continue I'm going to follow the advice in the book and have them initiated into the pathfinders and as their first mission have them travel to the planet Castrovel, a world i really like the idea of. Assuming we get that far, fingers crossed.