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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aboyd" data-source="post: 4675345" data-attributes="member: 44797">Aluvial, you have numbers all over the place.  This is a mess.  Let's start at ground zero.  You ran a big battle.  The good guys are:9 PCs of an unknown level12 "allies" of level 3The enemies are:10 CR 327 CR 59 CR 91 CR 11That should be overwhelming odds for low-level PCs, so I'm going to assume they're level 12.  Now let's put all that into the <a href="http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~frey/dnd/calculator.html" target="_blank">online calculator</a>.  We get:5829 xp for each level 3 character1014 xp for each level 12 PCHowever, you said you didn't want the dozen level-3 characters to dilute the XP pool.  You want them to be "rolled into 2 characters."  OK, according to page 49 of the DMG, a dozen level 3s equal 2 level 8s.  So let's remove those level 3 characters from the calculator and plug in 2 level 8s.  Here is what it thinks now:5927 xp for each of the 2 level 8 characters1936 xp for each level 12 PCNow, that basically means that 5927x2 is what the dozen level 3s get to split up.  However, you said you wanted them to have a half share.  Therefore, they split 5927:5927 ÷ 12 = 493 xp for each level 3 characterNext, you said you wanted to award only 60% of the normal amount.  So that will be:493 x .6 = 295 xp for each level 3 ally1936 x .6 = 1161 xp for each level 12 PCAs someone else said, that's the default way for all of 3.5 edition core.  It's not a niche style calculation.  It's the norm.  Thus, you can use any 3.5 edition online xp calculator.</blockquote>

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