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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 1643884" data-attributes="member: 141">XP awards different from IH!?Wulf,Did you intend for the XP system in Grim Tales to be different from Upper Krust's?The reason I ask is that the two systems diverge sharply when party size is not equal to 4.  In Grim Tales doubling the size of the party does not change the total amount of xp awarded; in the IH appendix it will halve the total xp awarded.  This is true both in version 4 and version 5 of the IH appendices.See, in the IH doubling a party will double the CR and double the number of combatants. This will increase the party EL by +4 for the increase in CR, and decrease the party EL by -2 for the increase in numbers (tables 2-1 and 2-5 in v4, or tables 2-1 and 2-2 in v5). A net increase of +2, which means the difference between the encounter level and the party level drops by +2, which means the *total* xp awarded is halved. (See table 2-8 in v4, or note that party size is counted twice in v5; once in table 2-2, and again in table 2-5).In the GT system doubling the party size increases the EL of the party by +4 for the increase in CR (table 14-1), decreases it by -2 for the increase in numbers (table 14-2), and so makes the EL difference change by -2.  According to table 14-4 that will halve the individual experience point award.  But since there are twice as many individuals, the total xp awarded has not changed.I know I was under the impression that the GT system was the same as Upper Krust's.  I just wondered if you had intended to change it, or not.</blockquote>

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