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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dreaddisease" data-source="post: 243768" data-attributes="member: 3548">XP is a DM call in those situations.  If there was a drastic effect made by the low level characters then they deserve XP, if not then no.  Here is an example:In one combat I had the 1st level characters in a major combat with higher(3 8th 1 13th 5 5th) level characters on both sides, but I had the party fighting a group of dire rats summoned by a sorceress.  By defeating the dire rats do I give them credit for the 8th level character that ran away or just a general number for what they contributed to the battle?  I gave them XP for defeating 3 dire rats.  A DM should have some idea how the XP is going to be distributed before hand.</blockquote>