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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1807150" data-attributes="member: 707">I disagree.&nbsp; Regardless of whether they accomplished their overall objective, they've defeated a dragon in combat, and that carries with it a commensurate xp award, IMO.&nbsp; I may or may not award bonus xp for accomplishing certain tasks, but defeating a dragon is defeating a dragon.&nbsp; It doesn't matter whether or not they want to kill it dead (except in the awarding of the bonus xp I mentioned before.)Let's look at it another way.&nbsp; Say there's a lich that's worth 10,000 xp for its CR.&nbsp; The party fights it ten times in the course of looking for its phyactery, their goal from the very first to destroy it utterly.&nbsp; By your reckoning, the party would gain 10,000 xp for finally destroying the lich...and that's it?Why is that different from the party killing ten different monsters, each monster worth 10,000 xp for its CR?My answer:&nbsp; it isn't.&nbsp; Each time you're facing 10 encounters, each worth 10,000 xp, and you walk away with 100,000 xp in all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Pendragon, post: 1807150, member: 707"] I disagree. Regardless of whether they accomplished their overall objective, they've defeated a dragon in combat, and that carries with it a commensurate xp award, IMO. I may or may not award bonus xp for accomplishing certain tasks, but defeating a dragon is defeating a dragon. It doesn't matter whether or not they want to kill it dead (except in the awarding of the bonus xp I mentioned before.) Let's look at it another way. Say there's a lich that's worth 10,000 xp for its CR. The party fights it ten times in the course of looking for its phyactery, their goal from the very first to destroy it utterly. By your reckoning, the party would gain 10,000 xp for finally destroying the lich...and that's it? Why is that different from the party killing ten different monsters, each monster worth 10,000 xp for its CR? My answer: it isn't. Each time you're facing 10 encounters, each worth 10,000 xp, and you walk away with 100,000 xp in all. [/QUOTE]

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