Downtime: catching up

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#1

delroland

Jan 17, 2015 12:48:04

Just a minor nitpick: shouldn't the cost of "Catching Up" be reduced based on how close the character is to their next level?

 

As such, rather than calculating each downtime day's value in XP (a tedious and unnecessary step), I suggest it be changed so that any XP above 2700 or 64000 simply be added to the starting value of the next level. This abstraction serves to simplify the idea that someone who is almost to the next level would need less time to "catch up" than someone who was at the bottom of the previous level.

 

Or, to put it another way, implementing my suggestion would mean "catching up" always rewards 3800 or 21000 XP for the same expenditure of downtime days and gold.

#2

TheBreen

Jan 17, 2015 15:49:10

As an alternate perspective, I like the fact that "catching up" takes you to the beginning of 5th level regardless of what part of 4th level you started at. I look at it this way: 5th level is the destination. Regardless of where you start, once you've reached your destination you have "caught up." This way it's up to the player to decide when (or whether) to use this feature, and the decision the player makes has consequences.

 

But again, that's just me.

#3

Stormborn20

Jan 17, 2015 18:12:33

TheBreen wrote:
#4

Coredump00

Jan 17, 2015 19:14:11

I am more hard core, my version of 'catch up' would have you stay at the same XP level, and just count as 5th level.

 

So if you are 4th level with 5,000 XP, you then become 5th level with 5,000XP.  You now need 9,000 more XP to get the 14K you need for 6th level

#5

delroland

Jan 20, 2015 18:12:41

Coredump00 wrote:
#6

Undrhil

Jan 22, 2015 22:35:00

Well, from what I can tell, if your character only went through the DDEX mods and did not touch Lost Mines or HotDQ, then you have no choice but to advance through the Downtime days method to level 5 since the 1-4 mods do not give enough XP to get to level 5.

 

Unless they planned on characters to finish DDEX1-1 - 1-9 and then go to the new 1-4 mods of the new season and *then* tun the 5-10 mods from season 1 ... which seems kind of stupid, really.

#7

Coredump00

Jan 23, 2015 0:30:40

Sure, but some characters are in Expeditions *and* in Encounters/HotDQ or LMoP.... but if not you can 'catch  up'.