#20: DF 8: From 7th to 16th Level in One Night

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Pushing toward the end.

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[Mark Krawec]

Call me crazy, but doesn't this sound like a recipe for eight TPKs in a row?

According to the online encounter calculator (http://www.d20srd.org/encounterCalculator.htm), for four characters who had just reached 7th level to reach 8th level in one encounter, they would need to beat 80 opponents with a CR of 6 to bag the 28000XP needed.

Are you sure they're up for taking on 80 wyverns? Or just over 100 trolls? Or 10 dread wraiths & 14 spectres?

From a mathematical point of view, it looks like either the characters are gonna get shellacked, or it's going to be a very long night of die rolling.

[Aaron Smith]

I sort of got the feeling he was having normal/somewhat threatening encounters, and just giving out MAJOR bonus xp. Call it "showing up" xp, or "making the grade" xp, or just "i like your shirt" xp... it amounts to the same thing. He wants his players to level.

[Kravell]

Yeah, I wanted them to level after just one normal encounter.

Not my best idea.

I'll go over what happened in my next column. Basically, though, I was saved because a player was called out to work and left only three guys.

We're gaming tonight (a normal adventure) and I expect it will go much better.

Charlie