Question about exp of big encounters


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Hello everyone

In the last Session an army of 100 warrior and mages(Level 4) did capture 23 Wizard (Level 8) and forced them through a Portal into their home land. To destroy their tracs they did put a Sphere of Annihilation in the Palace they captured the Wizards. Luckylie we convinced the queen of the evil guys to go befor us to the Portal, we did safe her sister befor. So we where like ok move the Sphere of Annihilation through the Portal. that way he killed the 100 warriors and mages and the 23 Wizards. Now is the big question how exactly do you calcutlate that exp? at the Moment we both just got a Level up to Level 8.


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Up to your GM, or if you're the GM, up to you :)

If I was the GM, at most I'd give a story award; it doesn't sound like you actually engaged in combat with this group. Figure out a ballpark CR for how challenging that event was intended to be (should the PCs have not come up with the out of left field solution they did), and award story XP based on that. It's possible it was meant to be a non-event, in which case consider awarding XP for an encounter of CR = APL. If it served no story purpose and just was to kill a bunch of people (both evil and good by the sound of it?) I'd have not awarded any XP for it at all. Regardless of the above, I would have also considered knocking the PCs alignments a step towards Evil for the act, indiscriminately slaughtering over 100 people who weren't directly engaged with the PCs (even if all of them are evil) isn't exactly taking the moral high road.

Now, if the PCs were actually in combat with this group, were the mass combat rules from Ultimate Campaign employed? If yes, use those rules for awards. If not, then RAW you'd give XP for each enemy individually. This only applies if the PCs were actually in combat with the entire group though, which it doesn't exactly sound like that was the case.


they did capture us, they did act like the evil elf of the witcher. (acctually their where elvs) the wizard did justify his Action with, "I dont want that the Palace wouuld be harmed" he did fail to indentify it, i just told him that that Thing will destroy the place. additionally the wizards has wiz 7 and is a (quite)bit senile.
befor that i did try to stop them from captureing them all but... one of our Party members was one of them so yeah i was like ok better stop putting arrows in them.
additonally to mention is that they killed the guards(beside me) and several friend of that Wizard while captureing the rest of them.

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