**This is a 1st level homebrew Pathfinder game**
Having gotten burnt out on the "same old thing" for starting level PCs; I put my adventurers on ship & forced them out too sea, by creating a storm that would have smashed the ship's hull on the docks while they were mustered for evening roll call for new hires to meet the rest of the crew.
Once they overcame the haphazard attempt to help secure the ship's safe departure from the port, I followed the morning wake up with cries from the crow's nest of hostiles approaching & in short order had them engaged in ship to ship combat with siege weapons.
**This is where the XP issue comes in**
I ran that scene off the cuff & now I need to figure out the XP for it, as well as XP for the next thing (getting the ship off a reef & discovering a "secret" opening along the reef). I have plenty to role-play through w/o combat to get through the next session easily, just no idea of what kind of XP to tie to the 2 events.
Any tips/suggestions to keep the XP balanced, to the moderate progression chart, would be highly appreciated.
Having gotten burnt out on the "same old thing" for starting level PCs; I put my adventurers on ship & forced them out too sea, by creating a storm that would have smashed the ship's hull on the docks while they were mustered for evening roll call for new hires to meet the rest of the crew.
Once they overcame the haphazard attempt to help secure the ship's safe departure from the port, I followed the morning wake up with cries from the crow's nest of hostiles approaching & in short order had them engaged in ship to ship combat with siege weapons.
**This is where the XP issue comes in**
I ran that scene off the cuff & now I need to figure out the XP for it, as well as XP for the next thing (getting the ship off a reef & discovering a "secret" opening along the reef). I have plenty to role-play through w/o combat to get through the next session easily, just no idea of what kind of XP to tie to the 2 events.
Any tips/suggestions to keep the XP balanced, to the moderate progression chart, would be highly appreciated.