I fail to understand any of the points here.
Oh, sorry, weird settings... Let's try Dropbox maybe?
You load the savefile in the town, go to the smithy and craft any weapon (tried two-handed or one-handed swords, daggers), then exit on the global map, and try catching any looter party.
means that the amount of XP one needs to advance from level N-1 to level N is N+10 higher than the previous level... So, if at level 0 we need 30 XP to get to level 1, the formula is
XP(N-1,N) = 20+N*10 + (N-1)*N/2
Could you please elaborate on this? What does it mean? Is it something explained in the game to any extend?