How to tell my table I think we are leveling too slow? /u/Ka-ne1990 DnD: Roll for Initiative!

First off I’ll get this out of the way. I am a player at this table and absolutely understand that the DM has discretion on how fast we level.

So here’s the setup. We are two years into a campaign we play bi-weekly, we certainly missed a few sessions but probably get 20 sessions a year in, so 40 sessions now. We are level 6.

Part of the problem is that, although I enjoy the roll playing part of the game, my party (and DM) are perfectly fine doing two or three weeks in a town making little to no progress.. like shopping and talking with pointless NPCs that do nothing for us. This is my wife’s first time DMing, (I was the DM for the past 5 years before this campaign), and I have a hard time communicating this too her.

She’ll asks for help, or what I think, and when I give my advice she seems like I’m telling her she not a good DM, which I don’t believe. So this is hard to just bring up our of no where because she doesn’t seem to think this is a problem. I know she has plans to take the campaign to atleast level 15 or 16, if not all the way to twenty.. but I don’t want to play this one campaign for the next 10 years.

Ultimately I know the answer is to either get over it and enjoy the ride or man up and talk to her like an adult, so this is probably just a “clear my head” post rather than seeking actual advice, however if anyone has dealt with a campaign going painfully slow before then I’d like to hear how it turned out.

Tl;Dr 2 year campaign and we are level 6.. I’m 34 and I’ll retire before reaching level 20 at this rate.

Ps. We are using milestone leveling, and I don’t think XP leveling would be any faster based on how spread out serious battles are.

First off I’ll get this out of the way. I am a player at this table and absolutely understand that the DM has discretion on how fast we level.

So here’s the setup. We are two years into a campaign we play bi-weekly, we certainly missed a few sessions but probably get 20 sessions a year in, so 40 sessions now. We are level 6.

Part of the problem is that, although I enjoy the roll playing part of the game, my party (and DM) are perfectly fine doing two or three weeks in a town making little to no progress.. like shopping and talking with pointless NPCs that do nothing for us. This is my wife’s first time DMing, (I was the DM for the past 5 years before this campaign), and I have a hard time communicating this too her.

She’ll asks for help, or what I think, and when I give my advice she seems like I’m telling her she not a good DM, which I don’t believe. So this is hard to just bring up our of no where because she doesn’t seem to think this is a problem. I know she has plans to take the campaign to atleast level 15 or 16, if not all the way to twenty.. but I don’t want to play this one campaign for the next 10 years.

Ultimately I know the answer is to either get over it and enjoy the ride or man up and talk to her like an adult, so this is probably just a “clear my head” post rather than seeking actual advice, however if anyone has dealt with a campaign going painfully slow before then I’d like to hear how it turned out.

Tl;Dr 2 year campaign and we are level 6.. I’m 34 and I’ll retire before reaching level 20 at this rate.

Ps. We are using milestone leveling, and I don’t think XP leveling would be any faster based on how spread out serious battles are.