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If you want a faster pace just halve those numbers. Thats two sessions if you do 12 hour games (roughly one level per month if you go every fortnight), every 4 sessions if you do 6 hour games (also roughly one level per month if you play once a week) or every 6 sessions if you have 4 hour games (about a month and a half if you play each week, or just under a month if you play twice a week). Judging by my own experience, every 24 hours or so of play time seems good.
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(PS: I also noticed there's a wicked transition from 'fairly swift progression' to 'man, we've been level 4 a long time'.) My groups pretty much always start at level 1 and I try to wrap things up by the early to mid teen levels if not sooner, so keep that in mind if you're aggregating numbers.
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We play 3-4 hours, pretty much every Friday, so 6 to 16 play hours per level? What do you consider to be a reasonable amount of real time, say in hours of gaming, to go up a level, roughly? Is 20 too fast? Is 80+ too slow? Should I learn to live in the moment and just be happy to play for another 20 weeks at 4th level?I like to see my groups ding every 2-4 weeks. What do you consider to be a reasonable amount of real time, say in hours of gaming, to go up a level, roughly? Is 20 too fast? Is 80+ too slow? Should I learn to live in the moment and just be happy to play for another 20 weeks at 4th level? In another game, the DM has used a couple of optional rules including that one and the pace is considerably faster (so far)-about 3 or 4 sessions to level, though those sessions often run 5 or 6 hours. I'm playing in several games and I'm left with the impression that the pace of leveling is fairly slow in this edition without any optional rules, like multipliers for fighting multiple opponents. He's following a module and he tends to follow it to the letter with very little creative adjustent. Whenever I insinuate that the pace seems a little slow, I get jokingly called a munchkin. I've dropped hints to give us bigger stuff to fight. Today's we fought 2 hobgoblins, 4 goblins, and 10 stirges. Last session we fought four orcs, their slightly beefed up leader, an ogre, and 2 perytons. If the two games since we leveled are indicative of the rate of x.p., I've calculated at least 20 more sessions at about 4 hours each to reach 5th. We've been 4th level for a couple of games.