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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jcosby" data-source="post: 2307569" data-attributes="member: 29386"><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Ok, I have an interesting question about calculating XP for a large encounter.  There are a number of reasons this is not the norm.  First there are seven player characters in the group, all of which are normal characters.  No followers, NPCs etc.  Secondly this was not a planned encounter.  This was a strange occurrence came about by actions the PC’s took which delving in the dungeon.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">What happened in short is due to the actions of the party they ended up fighting four encounters as one.  I had them set up as four separate encounters fairly close to one another.  </span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">But what happened in the end was they were all piled onto the group at once.  What I need help doing is figuring out how I award experience for such a large encounter with seven PCs.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The total fight had;</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">7 4th level Player Characters.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">They fought;</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">5 Human Warrior Skeletons</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1 Large Owlbear Skeleton</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1 Med Sized Earth Elemental</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1 Level 2 Human Cleric</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1 Level 2 Gnoll Ranger</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">8 Gnolls (Standard)</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">All of the PCs survived although two were at negative hps at the end of the fight, although I don’t believe that reduces their share of the experience.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I used a CR/XP calculator to come up with 957 xp per player.  Is this a reasonable amount of exp for a combat of this size?  I’m still trying to get my mind wrapped around the 3.5 ed. Xp system.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Thanks</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: white"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jcosby</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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