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Experience points gained?
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Magic Slim
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Korgan26 said:
Sorry, I meant the cube of force. You are correct about the price of the necklace.
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CR is an ESTIMATE of how hard a particular monster is ON AVERAGE.
EL is the SPECIFIC rating of a configuration of layout, monster strengths, tactics, and dis/ad-vantages for the opponents. However, it is still an ESTIMATE.
You give PCs XP for OVERCOMING CHALLENGES, not for killing monsters -- unless you restrict your set of challenges to only that specific type of challenge.
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EL is the SPECIFIC rating of a configuration of layout, monster strengths, tactics, and dis/ad-vantages for the opponents. However, it is still an ESTIMATE.
You give PCs XP for OVERCOMING CHALLENGES, not for killing monsters -- unless you restrict your set of challenges to only that specific type of challenge.
-- N
S'mon said:
The DMG states:
"Divide the total XP among all the characters who started the encounter."
Characters that died or were otherwise incapacitated (and therefore unable to participate in that encounter) before the encounter receive no XP.
As to you being a sick DM, i don't think so. If you were truly a sick DM you would have had them all die. Of course facing low CR creatures. So their defeat and death would have been humiliating as well.
Just my thoughts.
Hm. Well, the price of the items notwithstanding, the PCs didn't make it through by being terribly tricky, or by using lots of their abilities. They made it through by being lucky and/or through a misreading of the rules.
Either way, I don't see as the PCs really had opportunity to learn from the encounter, so they probably shouldn't get a whole lot of XP for it. This is typical of surviving such a challenge. To quote the 3e DMG, pg 166:
"The XP chart doesn't support awards for encounters eight or more Challenge Ratings above the party's level. If the party is taking on challenges that far above their level, something strange is going on, and the DM needs to think carefully about the awards rather than just taking them off a table. See Assigning Ad Hoc XP Awards."
So, the correct answer is not Dimwhit's "Extend the table". Nor is it Magic Slim's "No XP". The DM needs to consider an Ad Hoc award.
Either way, I don't see as the PCs really had opportunity to learn from the encounter, so they probably shouldn't get a whole lot of XP for it. This is typical of surviving such a challenge. To quote the 3e DMG, pg 166:
"The XP chart doesn't support awards for encounters eight or more Challenge Ratings above the party's level. If the party is taking on challenges that far above their level, something strange is going on, and the DM needs to think carefully about the awards rather than just taking them off a table. See Assigning Ad Hoc XP Awards."
So, the correct answer is not Dimwhit's "Extend the table". Nor is it Magic Slim's "No XP". The DM needs to consider an Ad Hoc award.
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ad hoc it! It really is best just to ad hoc all XP anyway. If people complain that you are giving them too little (or for some weird reason too much), just tell them to stop meta-gaming! XP is yours to hand out, and if you want to give them enough to gain more than a level you can. I say "feh" to the rules lawyers, do what j00 want.
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