Dire Boars loose in Alabama

[takyris]

As I read it, the kid shot the boar with a pistol while the adults stood by with rifles. If we're getting all D&D-ish with it, I'd argue that the kid shouldn't get full experience. This is pretty clearly a low-level character being escorted through a mid-level encounter by high-level allies.

 

[Slife]

As I read it, the kid shot the boar with a pistol while the adults stood by with rifles. If we're getting all D&D-ish with it, I'd argue that the kid shouldn't get full experience. This is pretty clearly a low-level character being escorted through a mid-level encounter by high-level allies.

But they didn't do anything, so it doesn't detract from the encounter's difficulty.

 

[Joël of the FoS]

But they didn't do anything, so it doesn't detract from the encounter's difficulty.

I disagree: they probably hunted with him with other mighty weapons, helping him track with success this enormous vicious beast in a forest, so mortally wounded and leaving blood by buckets it was fleeing, for three hours. So they helped the boy getting to the monster.

Also, the fact they were tracking it in the forest as a group surely helped frighten this vicious beast: making the humans' CR appear way too unchallengable to this mortally wounded, leaving blood by buckets, animal, and may be making it flee for three hours instead of fighting back. They did have a fear effect on the beast.

So I don't think the full CR should be used when calculating the boy's experience.

Joël

 

[frankthedm]

But they didn't do anything, so it doesn't detract from the encounter's difficulty.

Yes, they did. Their very presence changed the challenge and signifigantly reduced the danger. The boy was not alone, had the boar come at the child the adults would have protected the boy. The XP from an encounter comes from it's potential danger.

If the boy had been alone and thus as good as dead had the boar rushed him, he would have earned full XP

 

[Felix]

Yes, they did. Their very presence changed the challenge and signifigantly reduced the danger. The boy was not alone, had the boar come at the child the adults would have protected the boy. The XP from an encounter comes from it's potential danger.

If the boy had been alone and thus as good as dead had the boar rushed him, he would have earned full XP

Fortunately, as he was playing LIFE: the MMORPG and wasn't grouped with the adults, his final deathblow earns him full XP.

I just betcha he's waiting for the monster-hog to respawn.