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<blockquote data-quote="Murrdox" data-source="post: 744652" data-attributes="member: 10131">No no no no no no no!Please don't use that table for handing out XP... your players will hate you for it!That table is mainly used for calculating Encounter Level... mainly what kind of an encounter your players should be handling.Let's take a less complex example than what you say... a 5th level party against 2 1st level NPCS and one 5th level NPC.The 5th level NPC is a CR 5.The 2 1st level NPC's combine to be a CR 2.Which makes the whole encounter (by the table, I believe) to still be a EN 5 Encounter - namely, the CR 2 isn't enough to make the encounter an EL 6.While this table is great for figuring out what your characters can handle in combat, don't use EL for XP... use CR for XP.&nbsp; I believe this method of handing out XP is detailed in the FRCS, and it's much better.&nbsp; Give the PCs XP for each monster they kill individually.&nbsp; If they kill a CR 6, 8, three 2s, and twenty 1/2s, then give them XP for each one - don't try to combine all those CRs into ONE EL for the whole encounter and give them XP for that.My problem with this method... is that if you have a level 10 fighter, that's CR 10, and you get that much experience for defeating him.BUT, if you then give that CR 10 fighter 5 level 1 henchmen... the henchmen aren't enough to make the encounter an EL 11... so the characters would get just as much experience for defeating the level 10 fighter and all his henchmen as they would get for defeating only the fighter himself.... which doesn't make much sense.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Murrdox, post: 744652, member: 10131"] No no no no no no no! Please don't use that table for handing out XP... your players will hate you for it! That table is mainly used for calculating Encounter Level... mainly what kind of an encounter your players should be handling. Let's take a less complex example than what you say... a 5th level party against 2 1st level NPCS and one 5th level NPC. The 5th level NPC is a CR 5. The 2 1st level NPC's combine to be a CR 2. Which makes the whole encounter (by the table, I believe) to still be a EN 5 Encounter - namely, the CR 2 isn't enough to make the encounter an EL 6. While this table is great for figuring out what your characters can handle in combat, don't use EL for XP... use CR for XP. I believe this method of handing out XP is detailed in the FRCS, and it's much better. Give the PCs XP for each monster they kill individually. If they kill a CR 6, 8, three 2s, and twenty 1/2s, then give them XP for each one - don't try to combine all those CRs into ONE EL for the whole encounter and give them XP for that. My problem with this method... is that if you have a level 10 fighter, that's CR 10, and you get that much experience for defeating him. BUT, if you then give that CR 10 fighter 5 level 1 henchmen... the henchmen aren't enough to make the encounter an EL 11... so the characters would get just as much experience for defeating the level 10 fighter and all his henchmen as they would get for defeating only the fighter himself.... which doesn't make much sense. [/QUOTE]

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