ECL

XP Calculation

Effective Character Level (ECL) penalties adjust a character's level for the purpose of experience gain, to account for special abilities which give a character an advantage. On Arelith, these penalties come from gifts and subrace bonuses.
If a level 13 character has an ECL adjustment of +2, then his or her Effective Character Level is 15.

ECL XP adjustments are calculated as follows, and rounded down: (Level / ECL) x XP

Example:
A level 15 character receives 20xp for killing a NPC.
A level 15 character with +2 ECL receives (15 / 17) x 20XP = 17XP

As shown in the tables below, ECL also affects XP gains from roleplay bonus.

RPR ECL Reduction

As an added plus, an ECL reduction based on the RPR was implemented and works in conjunction with other ECL bonus and penalties.

Players with RPR 0 and 10 don't have a bonus.

Players with RPR 20 will have ECL -0.5

Players with RPR 30 will have ECL -1

Players with RPR 40 will have ECL -1.5

ECL and Parties

ECL only affects individual XP gain. For the purpose of party XP calculation, the level on a character's sheet is used, and individual XP gain is adjusted afterward.

Partying/traveling with a character that has ECL will not reduce XP gain.

Total ECL Calculation

The total ECL works in simple add and subtract, but all the influences of the ECL have to be taken in mind. These include:

Gifts

RPR bonus

ECL-reducing Awards

So if you are playing a Gnoll who has used a Minor Award for ECL (-1), the gift of Subrace(+1), the Gift of Humility(-2), and is at RPR 30(-1), you'd have -3 of ECL applied.

10 RPR

Level	-2.5	-2.0	-1.5	-1.0	-0.5	0	0.5	1.0	1.5	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0
3	60	30	20	15	12	10	8	7	6	6	5	5	4	4
4	26	20	16	13	11	10	8	8	7	6	6	5	5	5
5	20	16	14	12	11	10	9	8	7	7	6	6	5	5
6	17	15	13	12	10	10	9	8	8	7	7	6	6	6
7	15	14	12	11	10	10	9	8	8	7	7	7	6	6
8	14	13	12	11	10	10	9	8	8	8	7	7	6	6
9	13	12	12	11	10	10	9	9	8	8	7	7	7	6
10	13	12	11	11	10	10	9	9	8	8	8	7	7	7
15	12	11	11	10	10	10	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	7
20	11	11	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8
25	11	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8
30	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8

20 RPR

Level	-2.5	-2.0	-1.5	-1.0	-0.5	0	0.5	1.0	1.5	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0
3	120	60	40	30	24	20	17	15	13	12	10	10	9	8
4	53	40	32	26	22	20	17	16	14	13	12	11	10	10
5	40	33	28	25	22	20	18	16	15	14	13	12	11	11
6	34	30	26	24	21	20	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	12
7	31	28	25	23	21	20	18	17	16	15	14	14	13	12
8	29	26	24	22	21	20	18	17	16	16	15	14	13	13
9	27	25	24	22	21	20	18	18	17	16	15	15	14	13
10	26	25	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	16	15	14	14
15	24	23	22	21	20	20	19	18	18	17	17	16	16	15
20	22	22	21	21	20	20	19	19	18	18	17	17	17	16
25	22	21	21	20	20	20	19	19	18	18	18	17	17	17
30	21	21	21	20	20	20	19	19	19	18	18	18	17	17

30 RPR

Level	-2.5	-2.0	-1.5	-1.0	-0.5	0	0.5	1.0	1.5	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0
3	180	90	60	45	36	30	25	22	20	18	16	15	13	12
4	80	60	48	40	34	30	16	24	21	20	18	17	16	15
5	60	50	42	37	33	30	27	25	23	21	20	18	17	16
6	51	45	40	36	32	30	27	25	24	22	21	20	18	18
7	46	42	38	35	32	30	28	26	24	23	22	21	20	19
8	43	40	36	34	32	30	28	26	25	24	22	21	20	20
9	40	38	36	33	31	30	28	27	25	24	23	22	21	20
10	40	37	35	33	31	30	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21
15	36	34	33	32	31	30	29	28	27	26	25	25	24	23
20	34	33	32	31	30	30	29	28	27	27	26	26	25	25
25	33	32	31	31	30	30	29	28	28	27	27	26	26	25
30	32	32	31	31	30	30	29	29	28	28	27	27	26	26