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     I may be missing something, but....
  
       CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT
XP Level Benefit
0 1
650 2   +1175
1,825 3 +1700
3,525 4 +4450
7,975 5  +7500?

     So Going from 1st to 2nd is 650, while going from 4th to 5th is 4450.   [I don't understand how these numbers are computed.  Anybody have an idea? ]

    But encounters have...
Level Easy Average Tough
1 100 165 325
2 175 295 585
3 255 425 850
4 335 555 1115
5 415 690 1375
6 490 820 1640
7 570 950 1900
8 650 1050 2165
9 730 1215 2425
10 800 1350 2690   

     So Our 1st level reaches 2nd after about 4 encounters.  But our 4th level takes 8 encounters.  We don't seem to have figures for 9th going to 10th, but It could be 100 encounters.  20th level could be around 100,000 encounters. 

      So what am I doing wrong here?  Or does WOTC intend for us to have trouble reaching 10th?, much less higher?

     Back to the question.  Is the proposed XP system majorly flawed so that reaching much about 10th level is only theoretically possible?

     Qmark.  You seem to be saying the XP needed to level will level off.  Could you supply more detail?

Just because the curve skyrockets, that doesn't mean the XP function will.


AD&D used what was called delta doubling.  The amount of experience needed to go from level x to level x+1 was twice what it took to go from level x-1 to level x.  This gave a very similar curve.

But it also leveled out around level 9-10 and became a set value per level.


It's not an unheard of approach and, depending on how experience per creature goes up may or may not be the right approach.

Because that it what drives it:  The experience value should be based on killing x number of creatures of your level (simplest case).  Depending on how the experience points per hit die of the creature goes up, this may or rmay not be the right type of curve.  I think it is the wrong specific curve - but that's an issue with the formula, not the fact that it has a geometric increase.


Carl