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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kensanata" data-source="post: 3694961" data-attributes="member: 47845">I agree; this is a problem. Here's how I handle it:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Two giants got hit hard and flee in panic: XP for the two giants.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Two giants got hit hard and flee in panic, are pursued, and cut down: XP for the two giants.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Two giants did not get hit and make a strategic retreat: No XP.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Two giants are tracked down and defated later (and they are at full hit points, either because they weren't hurt before, or because they recovered): XP for the two giants.</li> </ul>Thus, if the two giants were part of the melee, got hit hard, fled in panic, and are encountered later (fully healed), the group can get twice the XP.And really, "they all look same" – if years pass between the first encounter and the final punishment, I find it natural to grant XP (again). Similarly, if the party later encounters two fully healed giants it doesn't really matter whether they are the same giants they encountered before: It's an encounter containing two giants and defeating them is worth some XP.Hm. Tricky. How do you handle a stand-off, then? Party meets five giants, the giants won't let them pass, and there's no fight. No XP, right? Party wants to rid a valley of five giants, but whenever they meet the giants, they retreat. But as soon as the party is gone, the giants return. I'd still award no XP. The point is that the party neither weaken the enemy, nor did the party furher their goals. The giants just stayed. I don't want to give XP in this situation. I prefer the players having to take some risk: Sneaking past the giants, hitting them hard, or finding 10 minutes to change the squid's attitude from hostile to unfriendly via Wild Empathy. Just insulting monsters and surviving is not enough. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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