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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ketjak" data-source="post: 515717" data-attributes="member: 1083">Encounter CRs, XP, & NPCsEncounters do not have to be combat based. Do not make that assumption, and instead check out the section in the DMG. Hence, non-combat NPCs don't have to face combat encounters to earn XP, and they can face encounters appropriate to their "party level" without once drawing blood.NPCs follow the same rules as PCs do. NPC classes exist to provide color to the world and to highlight the power level of PC classes. The design team found a very good way to make PCs heros without creating a different set of rules governing "normals." Straight 3D6 rolls, for example, generate a wide variety of normals - and all the rules are the same for those probably low-stat characters as they are for the relatively high-stat PCs.Keep it simple, right?- Ket</blockquote>