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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7435269" data-attributes="member: 20564">Hopefully then I can give you better math that whomever calculated it out.The problem is that the XP budget is calculated with a modifier based on the number of foes, but that modifier doesn't affect the XP actually awarded.For a party of 3-6 people, if you have a foe per PC then it's a x2 modifier.  So each PC ends up getting about half the XP per enounter listed.  Sure, sometimes it's a solo, and sometimes it's a horde of goblins - that averages out over time.1st level has a budget of 50 per PC for a medium encounter, which works out to 25 XP awarded per PC.  So it's 12 encounters to advance to 300 XP.2nd level has a budget of 100 per PC for a medium encounter, again half that for awarded XP.  You need 600, so 12 encounters at 50 each will get you there.3rd awards 75 each, needs 1800 more over 2nd, 24 encounters to level.4th awards 125 each, needs 3800 more, 22.4 encounters5th awards 250 each, needs 7500 more, 30 encounters.  In order to do 7500 in 8 encounters, that's 938 XP awarded per encounter.  If you just solo hard encounters you're still well short with only 750 XP each.I could go on, but it's pretty clear wherever said it was 8 encounters per level did not do their math right.  Perhaps they missed that the encounter multiplier was just for the budget, not for awarded XP.</blockquote>