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<blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 288049" data-attributes="member: 150">Hordes and hordesI'm all for sending in hordes of bad guys from time to time.&nbsp; Especially if you have characters who have taken the necessary feats to make themselves that sort of combat machine.&nbsp; After all, if you had a spellcaster you'd be annoyed if there was never an opportunity to use your spells, right?The trick is that, at a certain level, low level opponents stop producing experience points.&nbsp; I don't have my DMG with me today, but let's just say that a goblin, at less than 1 cr, is worth no XP to a pc that kills it.&nbsp; Remember, you figure the difficulty of an encounted based on numbers, but figure the experience based on the individual creatures, so even if my player who has a 9th level dwarf with great cleave and a huge greataxe fights the goblin horde and manages to cleave his way through 1,000 goblins before breakfast, he'll gain no XP for it.&nbsp; The same goes for the spellcaster that tosses around a few fireballs and wipes out scores at a time.&nbsp; The PCs will find it satisfying to carve through the enemy like this, but it will do very little for them.&nbsp; At the same time, while they're busy taking on the hordes, the goblin leaders can be setting them up for something sneakier . . .-rg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Radiating Gnome, post: 288049, member: 150"] [b]Hordes and hordes[/b] I'm all for sending in hordes of bad guys from time to time. Especially if you have characters who have taken the necessary feats to make themselves that sort of combat machine. After all, if you had a spellcaster you'd be annoyed if there was never an opportunity to use your spells, right? The trick is that, at a certain level, low level opponents stop producing experience points. I don't have my DMG with me today, but let's just say that a goblin, at less than 1 cr, is worth no XP to a pc that kills it. Remember, you figure the difficulty of an encounted based on numbers, but figure the experience based on the individual creatures, so even if my player who has a 9th level dwarf with great cleave and a huge greataxe fights the goblin horde and manages to cleave his way through 1,000 goblins before breakfast, he'll gain no XP for it. The same goes for the spellcaster that tosses around a few fireballs and wipes out scores at a time. The PCs will find it satisfying to carve through the enemy like this, but it will do very little for them. At the same time, while they're busy taking on the hordes, the goblin leaders can be setting them up for something sneakier . . . -rg [/QUOTE]

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