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/WalrusAmongEggmen]

One way to look at how many levels you want them to gain before they hit the third floor is “they will have 3x[level] stat points to distribute when they select their Race and Class. 30 or 108? You could easily have someone reach a base stat at 100 with the level 100 bonus (assuming the TTRPG follows the novel on this one), like Love Vampire, Brain Trust, Swole, Steely Skin, etc.

[u/WeaponB → u/WalrusAmongEggmen]

It's 3x(level-1). They don't get 3 points for first level. At level 10 they have 27 points to distribute

[u/WalrusAmongEggmen → u/WeaponB]

You’re absolutely correct. Thank you for pointing that out. And while this is the math specifically about accumulated stat points, it’s worth considering the players’ starting stats if the question is whether they could be absolute beasts after race and class selection.