| Mofisto |
So I'm putting my party through Children of the Void (part two of Second Darkness) and i recently ran into an interesting scenario.
Spoiler:
When the PCs get to Witchlight, and abandoned settlement on the island, they have the option of disturbing and fighting four zombies. Well, my game only had three PCs there in the session, and one decided to move on to the watchtower, another decided to actively search every nook and cranny (the rogue), and the third decided to watch the rogue go about his business from afar, intending to step in if he got himself in serious trouble.
So long story short, the Rogue disturbed the zombies, and ended up killing all four of them in a combat that lasted about 20 rounds, with him taking nearly fatal damage (he was down to 4 out of 21 HP). He was able to handle it deftly because he has 19 AC and was wielding a slashing weapon which bypassed their DR. They were swinging +2 and -3 when he let then get both attacks, so they had a 15% to hit with their primary and a 5% with their secondary. So my question is, how should i go about awarding experience for that fight?
Looking at the EXP table..
He fought four CR1 creatures. If he got the full exp for each one, it'd be 400 apiece so 1600.
If he gets what's listed in the column for a party of "1-3" he'd get 135 apiece and so 540 overall, but that total seems to me like it factors in him having help from others.
If we use the CR equivalancies table, four CR1s is equal to one CR4 encounter.
If I give him the total xp for a CR4 encounter (since he handled it himself) that would be 1200.
Lastly, if I give him the 1-3 exp for a CR4 encounter, it's 400.
So long story short, the Rogue disturbed the zombies, and ended up killing all four of them in a combat that lasted about 20 rounds, with him taking nearly fatal damage (he was down to 4 out of 21 HP). He was able to handle it deftly because he has 19 AC and was wielding a slashing weapon which bypassed their DR. They were swinging +2 and -3 when he let then get both attacks, so they had a 15% to hit with their primary and a 5% with their secondary. So my question is, how should i go about awarding experience for that fight?
Looking at the EXP table..
He fought four CR1 creatures. If he got the full exp for each one, it'd be 400 apiece so 1600.
If he gets what's listed in the column for a party of "1-3" he'd get 135 apiece and so 540 overall, but that total seems to me like it factors in him having help from others.
If we use the CR equivalancies table, four CR1s is equal to one CR4 encounter.
If I give him the total xp for a CR4 encounter (since he handled it himself) that would be 1200.
Lastly, if I give him the 1-3 exp for a CR4 encounter, it's 400.
Now, I want to be fair, but I also don't want his experience to outpace the other members of the group. In the last session they racked up a combined total of 805 XP from their other two encounters.
My next session is tonight and I'm just trying to have the XP totals from last week on hand when we start our game.
Any advice on how much XP I should award this PC?