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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D'karr" data-source="post: 5971227" data-attributes="member: 336">It's a very interesting proposition.  In the current campaign I'm running I award XP on a "challenge level" sliding scale.The base XP for the encounter is awarded if the challenge worked out as expected.  There is a 25% reduction in XP if the challenge was an unexpected cakewalk, and a 25% increase if the challenge was unexpectedly difficult.  I find that the majority of encounters fall near the baseline but a few are outliers in each direction. This allows me to tailor XP awards based on real "at the table" effort instead of theoretical planning numbers.  I only apply this to those "unexpected" changes in the challenge level because if I had designed the encounter to be tough or easy, the base XP would already account for that.  This has worked very well for my campaign.</blockquote>