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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2102907" data-attributes="member: 707">I think perhaps I'm misrepresenting my "system."I don't reduce xp for good tactics.  I don't reduce xp if a combat goes easier than expected.The last combat a ran--first in a new campaign--consisted of the 18 dex, Combat Reflexes fighter mowing down swarms of Tiny critters, since they provoked AoOs when they attacked.  I hadn't anticipated the power of Combat Reflexes vs. Tiny critters, so the combat went much more easily than anticipated.  I did not dock xp from it because of this, though.  Nor would I dock xp from an encounter where the cleric easily destroyed a group of undead, or the wizard got lucky with a Disintegrate spell, etc. etc.  I don't dock xp for excellent use of flanking, or Sundering, or disarming.  I don't dock xp if the fighter gets lucky and scores a half-dozen critical hits.But I do take a look at the initial setup of a combat, and adjust the EL for the situation.  If the party is standing at the top of a 50' cliff and sees a Tyrannosaurus at the bottom, the EL for that encounter gets reduced.  The T-Rex simply cannot respond to whatever the party does, and that makes the encounter far easier inherently, than a standard T-Rex encounter is meant to be to earn full xp.And the scenario presented above, IMO, is not a standard EL griffon encounter.</blockquote>