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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 3002446" data-attributes="member: 9410">In a recent game, I ran a solo PC into a seventh level Drow.  Now that the fight's over, I have some questions with the XP and magic rewards...The poor PC, having a falling out with the adventuring group (after the Half-Orc attacked him), left the party and went off, leaving all the treasure from the previous episode with the party.  Alone in a strange land, without a party, friend, or a copper to his name, the lone PC took the desperate route, and went off into the ruins to seek treasure enough to pay for food & lodging.Wanting to test The Le Games' <a href="http://shop.enworld.org/index.php?productsid=1264&aid=9410" target="_blank">Spider King</a> class, I took the PC's stats and equipment, and made a Spider King with nearly the same stuff (equal stats and level, different weapons).  I was slightly worried about the Drow's poison, but he only had one dose, and his attack missed, so it didn't even come up.Anyway, the PC killed the Drow, who was also seventh level, so onto the LA, CR, XPs, & magic/wealth...Since it was a one-on-one combat, I up the level by four, right?  And add one, for being a Drow?  So the PC gets experience for a 12th-Level encounter?  Or am I miscomputing?The PC doesn't know it, yet, but I gave the Drow two +1 weapons, buckler, and shield (which is what the PC had), but the only other treasure I rolled up was 1,200 GP's-worth.  Is about 4,500-GP's worth about right, or should it be more?How would you do it?</blockquote>

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