@LukeAlmighty yeah, something like that unfortunately doesn't work for a single player game. i WANT players to be able to overlevel if that's what they want to do, especially if they're playing on a higher difficulty. i just want to make sure that if they are going for that strategy, their characters level up at roughly the same rate instead of having one guy at level 27 and another at 19.
if it were a linear game it would be much easier, but it's not :P deadass, the sequel to god's disdain is going level up characters only through story progression. it'll work a lot better for the type of game it is, but it'll also be so much easier to balance. that's why i do leveling by story progression for D&D too.