Recursive monsters / traps, do they give XP multiple times?

[Taku Ooka Nin]

If the party encounters a summon monster trap that auto-resets and activates on a trigger, E.G. opening a door or being in sight, .etc., do the PCs get XP for defeating the creatures it spawns? What about if they leave, rest and return?

If the players defeat a bloody skeleton but fail to truly destroy it, and it returns to attack them an hour later, do they get XP for destroying it subsequent times?

If Bibbity the Necromancer summons skeletons against the players do the players get XP for the skeletons?

If a gnome marries a nymph who attends the wedding?

[Starglim]

1 and 2: The party get XP for defeating the challenge. If it attacks them again, clearly they didn't defeat it the first time, as it is still a threat to them. They get XP once, if they are not killed by it and succeed in getting past it to the next encounter.

3: Bibbity has used his class features and/or equipment, which are included in his CR. No additional XP.

4: Her olds. Who may or may not be Eldest. Typically large families of nymphs were born of local gods.

[Malag]

Typically, encounters that "reset" grant XP only once.
- Your trap example would give XP once.
- Bloody skeleton example would give XP once after defeating it.
- Summoned creatures do not grant any XP, although if it's a bound or summoned creature for a longer period of time, GM should consider it as normal encounter.
- Marrying a nymph grant's at least 5 levels worth of XP.

Adam

[Wheldrake]

Taku Ooka Nin wrote:

If a gnome marries a nymph who attends the wedding?

Presumably Paracelsus, for one.

Paracelsus wrote:

If any man has a Nymph for a wife, let him take care not to offend her while she is near the water, as in such a case she might return to her own element; and if any one has a Gnome for a servant, let him be faithful to him, for each has to be dutiful to the other; if you do your duty to him, he will do his duty to you. All this is in the divine order of things and will become manifest in due time; so that we will then be able to see that which seems now almost incredible"

Or was there some other punchline?