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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1548155" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>>>if the DM refuses to award the correct experience for an encounter, you have every right to recalculate it yourself and show him or her the correct number based on the rules. If he or she still refuses to award you the correct amount of experience, get up and walk out.<<</p><p></p><p>Don't try this at home, kids. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Especially my players. But I'm sure y'all know better already... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>The DM is in charge at their table. If they don't want to award by-the-book XP, that is entirely their prerogative. In fact my experience has been that if anything most GMs award a bit more than book-XP, since they tend to award standard XP by CR (or by EL! Heretics!) and then add Story and/or Roleplay XP on top. If the GM wants to award 1/10 standard XP (or no XP!) that's their choice. Doesn't make it a bad game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 1548155, member: 463"] >>if the DM refuses to award the correct experience for an encounter, you have every right to recalculate it yourself and show him or her the correct number based on the rules. If he or she still refuses to award you the correct amount of experience, get up and walk out.<< Don't try this at home, kids. :) Especially my players. But I'm sure y'all know better already... ;) The DM is in charge at their table. If they don't want to award by-the-book XP, that is entirely their prerogative. In fact my experience has been that if anything most GMs award a bit more than book-XP, since they tend to award standard XP by CR (or by EL! Heretics!) and then add Story and/or Roleplay XP on top. If the GM wants to award 1/10 standard XP (or no XP!) that's their choice. Doesn't make it a bad game. [/QUOTE]
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