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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nopantsyet" data-source="post: 95986" data-attributes="member: 3109">My party just fought a battle against three evil NPCs--the leader and two minions.  The two minions were killed in consecutive rounds and the leader then teleported to safety.  This was what I expected to happen since the leader is a very powerful NPC who will recur.How should I calculate XP for this?  Obviously they get XP for the defeated opponents.  But what about the one that got away?  He made the encounter more difficult, but they did not defeat him.  And had he fought to the death or even a few more rounds there likely would been a few PC deaths.They did get through the encounter, so DMG advice would seem to say they get full XP for the encounter.  But that seems like alot when I calculate it.  I'm just wondering what other people have done in this situation.</blockquote>