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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fifth Element" data-source="post: 8581414" data-attributes="member: 48135">Or you could just read the DMG. From page 261:"NONCOMBAT CHALLENGESYou decide whether to award experience to characters for overcoming challenges outside combat. If the adventurers complete a tense negotiation with a baron, forge a trade agreement with a clan of surly dwarves, or successfully navigate the Chasm of Doom, you might decide that they deserve an XP award.As a starting point, use the rules for building combat encounters in Chapter 3 to gauge the difficulty of the challenge. Then award the characters XP as if it had been a combat encounter of the same difficulty, but only if the encounter involved a meaningful risk of failure.MILESTONESYou can alo award XP when characters complete significant milestones. When preparing your adventure, designate certain events or challenges as milestones, as with the following examples:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Accomplishing one in a series of goals necessary to complete the adventure.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Discovering a hidden location or piece of information relevant to the adventure.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Reaching an important destination.</li> </ul>When awarding XP, treat a major milestone as a hard encounter and a minor milestone as an easy encounter."There you go, guidelines for awarding XP for non-combat encounters, right in the core book for the DM. No mental gymnastic required; it's in the rules.</blockquote>

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