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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Creamsteak" data-source="post: 1611030" data-attributes="member: 552">Tough call, in my humble opinion. I'm a very liberal DM about awarding experience for overcoming challenges in non-combat methods. I'll award xp for sneaking, talking, killing, or even just out-planning or out-waiting a particular opponent if it represents that the group has overcome something that through their direct actions.But awarding experience twice for one creature in the same day seems unusual. I think that I, too, would only award experience a single time. This is grounded in my opinion that "sneaking past the guard twice" or "disabling the trap on the way in and the way out" are not seperate instances of a challenge. They each are a single challenge that exists on two seperate paths. This dragon is a single challenge that had to be overcome two different ways, but it's still only been overcome "once" in total instances. But I understand completely where you are coming from, as the DM would have probably awarded full xp for driving the Dragon away the first time if a substantially long break had been taken between encounters (like 1 session or more).I'd go with the DM on this one.</blockquote>