xp question

[Brother Mortimer]

I assume you add up experience points and then divide by the number of characters.

Spoiler:

Yet the module says the characters should be close to second level by the time they enter the prison. But there don't seem to be enough experience points from research, the centipedes and the angry peasants to get the PCs much more than half a level - unless they put off going to Harrowstone for a long time. Are you supposed to give each player the full xp value? This seems like too much - players would be closer to 3rd level as long as they did most of the research.

[Dave the Barbarian]

You are correct on XP.

I added a bunch of little side encounters to help get them enough XP. They could get killed easily if they are only first level while Checking out the prison.

[Windspirit]

Brother Mortimer wrote:

I assume you add up experience points and then divide by the number of characters. ** spoiler omitted **

Check out the other posts about XP's and lage Groupes etc.

As for me: I play with 6 players and I decided halfway throught TotB to do the following: I max out all Mosters HP's, add 25%-33% of Mosnters to the encounters (or if not possible I fudge 1-3 rolles in my favour) and then divide the XP's by 4 (what is the original amount of players).