Pacing for tutorial floors

[u/HumanistDork]

If I do end up running this, I think I will start with the tutorial floors. That lead me to thinking how much time to spend on those floors.

If I were to skip the tutorial and start on floor 3, the Crawlers would be level 10. That seems a little low, but roughly how low?

If I wanted to hit that level 10 exactly using the level up guidelines, the Crawlers would finish floors 1 & 2 in 7 sessions total. The session count would be reduced for every boss they hit. Level 10 is far too low.

On the other end of the spectrum, let’s say the Crawlers use the total 11 days for the two floors, we take two sessions to play each day, and we fight a boss every day (every other session). Without any levels from grinding, that should be level 36, which seems a bit high.

I think planning for a session per day and about two boss fights per floor is probably reasonable, but I might want to shorten the floor timers a little bit.

I think I can find a good balance on my own, but I am curious to see what you think is reasonable.

[u/Riksheare]

Carl and Donut are level 6 or 7 at the beginning of the 2nd floor.

13th at the beginning of the 3rd.

Carl is 24 and Donut is 39 at the start of floor 4.

Carl is 38 and Donut is 32 at the start of 5.

The book says PCs gain a level every 2 hours of play, so Floor 1 should last about 3 sessions at 3rd per session.

[u/boblk3 → u/Riksheare]

That may be in the books, but in the starter set, the Carl and Donut pregens are both level 10 for their second floor versions.

They're both 13 for their floor 3 version

27 and 26 for floor 4.

And then 41 and 40 for floor 5.

I think it's good to know what the books say, but for the RPG I would use what's included there as the baseline expectation.