Characters advance through levels by gaining experience, either through combat, by completing quests or by skill use. There are no character classes and characters advance at a rate defined by their race’s experience gain multiplier. Experience gained via combat is based on the group’s level relative to the level of the enemy.

Each level gained, the main stats (HP, MP, SP) of the character increase randomly based on his race. Every level, the character gains two skill points (configurable) he can allocate to skills, but can never go over base rank 5 (configurable, modifiers not included) in any skill. Every skill can only be increased once per level (configurable).

Every 2 levels (configurable), the character can also choose from a pool of perks, based on the perk requirements.

Every character in the game has a base experience value assigned. This is the amount of experience a player character group would receive for defeating this character if they had equal levels. During combat, every time an enemy is killed his level is compared to the average level of the player character group and then the actual experience gained is calculated:

actualExperience = baseExperienceValue + (enemyLevel – playerCharacterGroupAverageLevel) * (baseExperienceValue/ enemyLevel)

Examples:

Level 5 bandit with baseExperienceValue = 100 is fighting a level 7 player character group.

actualExperience = 100 + (5 -7) * (100/5) = 100 - 40 = 60

Level 10 dragon with baseExperienceValue = 500 is fighting a level 7 player character group.

actualExperience = 500 + (10 -7) * (500/10) = 500 + 150 = 650

This actualExperience is then added to the pool of experience gained. It is not immediately awarded to the player. Once combat ends, all experience in the pool is divided by the number of alive characters in the party (rounded down) and the result assigned to each surviving member after being multiplied by that member’s experience gain multiplier.

Each quest has a constant amount of experience assigned. This is not relative to the party’s level. Once the quest is completed, the amount is divided by the number of live characters in the party (rounded down) and the result awarded to each live member after being multiplied by that member’s experience gain multiplier.

Following skills earn experience. Only the user of the skill gains the experience points. The numbers below must always be multiplied by the user’s experience gain multiplier before being awarded.

• Lock picking: lock level * 5
• Traps (find): trap level * 2
• Traps (disarm): trap level * 3
• Hunting (success only): chance to catch / 10
• Scouting (on successfully finding water, or avoiding random encounter): chance to find / 10
• Persuasion (success only): chance to succeed / 5
• Climbing and swimming (success only): chance to succeed / 10

Experience table is defined globally and it is the same for all races and characters. Characters can still progress at a different pace according to their race, but the table is the same.

The table is defined by defining the required experience gain for every level. This is the amount of new experience the character must gain in order to reach a new level.

Example:

ExperienceTable.csv

100,150,200,250,300,350,400,450,500,600,700,800,900,1000,1100,1300,1500,1700,1900,2100

This definition results in the following table:

Level	Required experience total	Required experience gain	Experience gain difference
1	100	100
2	250	150	50
3	450	200	50
4	700	250	50
5	1000	300	50
6	1350	350	50
7	1750	400	50
8	2200	450	50
9	2700	500	50
10	3300	600	100
11	4000	700	100
12	4800	800	100
13	5700	900	100
14	6700	1000	100
15	7800	1100	100
16	9100	1300	200
17	10600	1500	200
18	12300	1700	200
19	14200	1900	200
20	16300	2100	200

The experience table also defines the hard level cap which, once reached, prevents characters from gaining more experience. Level cap is the last defined level in the table, in this case level 20.