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<blockquote data-quote="Grue" data-source="post: 6128486" data-attributes="member: 11989">&lt;looks it up&gt;&nbsp; Heh.... by RAW no.&nbsp; Page 37 DMG, &quot;Do not award XP for creatures that enemies summon or otherwise add to their forces with magic powers.&quot;&nbsp; Planar binding is pretty clearly an otherwise 'magic powers' by RAW.On a DM side of the screen, like everything else in the game it can be a judgement call dependent on circumstances of the encounter since XP awards are guidelines rather than hardline rules.&nbsp; It would be beyond a rat-bastard-dm move to tell a Party that 'Nope you're just getting the xp for killing that 13th level wizard and nothing for all those demons he had bound before the encounter began.&nbsp; Oh by the way, he doesn't have much treasure since he spent that binding all those critters that wiped half the party.&quot;&nbsp; It'd be hilarious up to the point my players lynched me.If a critter is called and bound well before the encounter begins and it does add to the difficulty of the encounter then I would adjust the CR up (awarding more xp).&nbsp; If it's stationed by itself guarding a location I'd award xp according to its CR.Not sure of the context of this question but I'll cover this base as well- if a PC binds a outsider and then has it attack the party, defeating it earns no xp award...it was neither an obstacle in the way of the party's goals nor a necessary expenditure of resources even if it provided any sort of threat or challenge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grue, post: 6128486, member: 11989"] <looks it up> Heh.... by RAW no. Page 37 DMG, "Do not award XP for creatures that enemies summon or otherwise add to their forces with magic powers." Planar binding is pretty clearly an otherwise 'magic powers' by RAW. On a DM side of the screen, like everything else in the game it can be a judgement call dependent on circumstances of the encounter since XP awards are guidelines rather than hardline rules. It would be beyond a rat-bastard-dm move to tell a Party that 'Nope you're just getting the xp for killing that 13th level wizard and nothing for all those demons he had bound before the encounter began. Oh by the way, he doesn't have much treasure since he spent that binding all those critters that wiped half the party." It'd be hilarious up to the point my players lynched me. If a critter is called and bound well before the encounter begins and it does add to the difficulty of the encounter then I would adjust the CR up (awarding more xp). If it's stationed by itself guarding a location I'd award xp according to its CR. Not sure of the context of this question but I'll cover this base as well- if a PC binds a outsider and then has it attack the party, defeating it earns no xp award...it was neither an obstacle in the way of the party's goals nor a necessary expenditure of resources even if it provided any sort of threat or challenge. [/QUOTE]

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