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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Koren n'Rhys" data-source="post: 6761355" data-attributes="member: 66792">Hi All,I want to be sure I'm handling DM rewards and player XP correctly here.  Running Lost Mine for D&D Encounters at my FLGS.  Full table, about 2/3 new to 5E, a couple with some experience.We just had our 4th session tonight and the party has finished Part 1, clearing out the goblin caves and moving on to Phandalin next session.If I understand correctly, I as DM can finally log a reward of 300 XP & 150 GP. Even though it's 4 sessions, it's still just one "episode" of the adventure, correct?How about my poor players?  With a table of 7 every session, they aren't getting a very large piece of the XP pie, going by monsters defeated alone. It hasn't even been the same players each week - I have a little drop in/drop out, so the players who were there tonight are sitting at ~150XP after a full four sessions.  Not enough to level up yet.  I'm NOT supposed to be using the milestone XP, right?  By that, they should be leveling up...I should note that I did not adjust the encounters at all so far, and I'm thinking now that I should have done that.  I expect I need to review the rules for adjusting encounters to better fit APL, etc. Is that my only avenue to bump things up as we move forward?Thanks!</blockquote>