[Theory] Experience Bonus Relevancy

How often is bonus experience relevant to a campaign? Below we compare two fighters, identical except for an XP Bonus. A relevant session is one in which the fighter with bonus XP is a level ahead of the other. XP values follow an old-school trend of doubling each level, until leveling off at higher character levels.

Slow Leveling

Bonus XP	Relevancy %	Relevant Sessions
5%	9.10%	7 of 77
10%	17.50%	13 of 75
20%	33.30%	24 of 72

Medium Leveling

Bonus XP	Relevancy %	Relevant Sessions
5%	8.90%	4 of 41
10%	17.40%	7 of 40
20%	32.80%	12 of 38

Fast Leveling

Bonus XP	Relevancy %	Relevant Sessions
5%	8.70%	2 of 22
10%	16.80%	4 of 21
20%	31.50%	6 of 20

Very Fast Leveling

Bonus XP	Relevancy %	Relevant Sessions
5%	8.30%	1 of 12
10%	16.10%	2 of 12
20%	30.30%	4 of 12

View a pastebin of the source code here if you wish to know how these results were generated.

[News] Introducing Ransack Games

In the interest of making a huge mistake I am establishing the Ransack Games brand & creating this blog to discuss two rulesets: Ransack & Bravery. On the right-hand bar you will find two important features. First, a link to the Ransack Playtest Rules which are inspired by & derived from the oldest tabletop games. Second, a link to the Ransack Games Discord where I discuss the rules & occasionally run games. Ransack will be my primary focus for the foreseeable future, but I hope to return some day to the significantly more complex Bravery ruleset which targets experienced players. While I have a number of posts in a variety of formats in the works, I do not expect to be able to post very often. For the moment I hope to post at least once a month with a particular focus on the design decisions of Ransack.