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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6252066" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>I will try to handle this transition between combat and interaction better next time!</p><p></p><p>One note about XP given... basically this is just the total from the Bestiary entries, divided by 5 PC. </p><p></p><p>By the book, this encounter qualified as "tough" for 1st level PCs, or possibly even more since you were outnumbered 2-to-1 (according to the rules, when outnumbered, the DM should consider the encounter one step harder, but there is no step beyond "tough"), although this is a little debatable because you managed to catch the first couple of enemies on their own, before they all regrouped.</p><p></p><p>That said... 50XP is quite few! I was aware that a lot of playtesters reported that monsters are weak at this stage, which is why I went with a "tough" encounter without fear. But then I checked the XP, and this does not feel in line with the "1st level should be over in one gaming session" idea, because I have some serious doubts that in a tabletop game we could go through 5 such encounters. But maybe I'm wrong, and we really could... it's not easy to compare the time it takes on PbP with the time it would take in a live game.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That is just something that I can't resist from doing <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Ideally, <em>all</em> the intelligent creatures in my fantasy setting would have a name and own identity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6252066, member: 1465"] I will try to handle this transition between combat and interaction better next time! One note about XP given... basically this is just the total from the Bestiary entries, divided by 5 PC. By the book, this encounter qualified as "tough" for 1st level PCs, or possibly even more since you were outnumbered 2-to-1 (according to the rules, when outnumbered, the DM should consider the encounter one step harder, but there is no step beyond "tough"), although this is a little debatable because you managed to catch the first couple of enemies on their own, before they all regrouped. That said... 50XP is quite few! I was aware that a lot of playtesters reported that monsters are weak at this stage, which is why I went with a "tough" encounter without fear. But then I checked the XP, and this does not feel in line with the "1st level should be over in one gaming session" idea, because I have some serious doubts that in a tabletop game we could go through 5 such encounters. But maybe I'm wrong, and we really could... it's not easy to compare the time it takes on PbP with the time it would take in a live game. That is just something that I can't resist from doing ;) Ideally, [I]all[/I] the intelligent creatures in my fantasy setting would have a name and own identity. [/QUOTE]
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