Mind solving this XP question and explain the result?

[UnclePaul]

Apl 9 group 4 people

1st fight cloud giant cr 11

2nd fight 12 hill giants with a frost giant
12 cr 8 and a cr 9.
I can't figure the exp on this. The calculator I downloaded has it all messed up
if you dont mind could some one break down the math for me.

[wraithstrike]

You find the XP of each monster, and add them together.

At the end of the session you divide by 4. The APL of the group does not matter. Unlike 3.5 the party level does not affect XP

[Benchak the Nightstalker]

Dr.Rant wrote:

Apl 9 group 4 people

1st fight cloud giant cr 11

2nd fight 12 hill giants with a frost giant
12 cr 8 and a cr 9.
I can't figure the exp on this. The calculator I downloaded has it all messed up
if you dont mind could some one break down the math for me.

No math necessary (ok, maybe some simple addition, but that hardly counts). Unlike previous versions of the game, all monsters have a set xp value now. Just find the values for the CRs you listed on this Easy to Use Chart and add them together.

[Dosgamer]

BTW, might I say bravo to your group for surviving a CR 14.5 encounter (after a CR 11 encounter) with an APL of 9 with four PC's. Wow!

Your exp breakdown is very straightforward as the others have said...

1 x CR 11 cloud giant (12,800), plus
12 x CR 7 hill giants (12 x 3,200 each) = 38,400 + 12,800, plus
1 x CR 9 frost giant (6,400) = 6,400 + 38,400 + 12,800, divided by 4 PC's equals 57,600 / 4 = 14,400 each

[Dosgamer]

Oh, and if your hill giants truly were CR 8 instead of CR 7, then I'm even more impressed! That would be a CR 15.5 encounter or APL+6.5. Yowza!

Which makes the grand total...
12,800 + (12 x 4,800) + 6,400 = 76,800/4 = 19,200 or about 2/3 of the exp needed to make level 10 on medium progression. Dang!

[UnclePaul]

Thanks all for the help
the hg's were cr 7
It was a 2 hour fight. The party's wizard was able to make the difference by softening the hg's up with everyones fav fireball.

[BigCrunch]

Dr.Rant wrote:

Thanks all for the help

the hg's were cr 7
It was a 2 hour fight. The party's wizard was able to make the difference by softening the hg's up with everyones fav fireball.

Dont you mean that the wizard softened them up with usage of superior tactics, and a pair of brass balls that clank?

[Dosgamer]

Dr.Rant wrote:

Thanks all for the help

the hg's were cr 7
It was a 2 hour fight. The party's wizard was able to make the difference by softening the hg's up with everyones fav fireball.

Did any of the PC's die in the encounters by the way? I'm just curious. Those should have been a lethal combination of encounters unless there were mitigating circumstances that greatly favored the PC's. To pull them off without a death is quite a nice feather in their cap (if true).

[BigCrunch]

Dosgamer wrote:

Dr.Rant wrote:

Thanks all for the help

the hg's were cr 7
It was a 2 hour fight. The party's wizard was able to make the difference by softening the hg's up with everyones fav fireball.

Did any of the PC's die in the encounters by the way? I'm just curious. Those should have been a lethal combination of encounters unless there were mitigating circumstances that greatly favored the PC's. To pull them off without a death is quite a nice feather in their cap (if true).

Here was the situation. We were going to try to infiltrate the HQ of a group of hill giants. I,the wizard, dropped an exploding rune where the guards could see it. It exploded and that was the signal for the other 3 members, a Heavens Oracle, Archer Fighter, and Rogue, to use their passwall scroll to sneak into the compound. As soon as the rune exploded, the hill giants ran out of the gate to get me, but i was using Overland Flight. The Hill Giant leader (later revealed to be using a Frost Giant template) whipped out a ballista and shot me once. They then all retreated into the compound and occupied a tower. The rest of my party snuck in and happened to enter a room where this Cloud Giant was staying. That battle played out with the Rogue dying and the Fighter endiing up killing him. Meanwhile, i toss a fireball into the tower, then the giants retreated into the main compound. I had cast Greater Invisiblity, so i followed them in. They gathered in the room just beyond the gated door. I cast Firefall, damaging and blinding them. Then they retreated into the Great Hall room, where i pelted them with fireball and lightning bolt. The way i had so many fireballs was because i took heightened spell and preferred spell, focus of fireball. In the great room, several of the giants perceived me but managed to hit me only a couple of times with rocks. Just before i got finally hit with a rock, and knocked unconscious, i cast Elemental Wall (Fire) splitting them up and damaging most of them. At that moment my 2 other living party members entered the room and i got hit with a final rock that both knocked me out and ended my concentration on the Wall. Then it played out where the oracle heal spammed the Fighter, who got down to single digit hit points several times. The oracle healed me, and i began magic missiling things left and right. We basically got out by the skin of our teeth.

[BigCrunch]

oh and dr.rant just has a hateon for fireball...and all magic other than healing and magic missle.

Thats why i'm going to start taking lvls of barbarian so i dont get my feats banned.

I've already had to replace heightened spell and preferred spell with Exotic Weap Prof. (Net) and Improved Bullrush

[Dosgamer]

Gotcha. Thanks for the follow up! Sounds like a fun adventure (except for the poor rogue). Well done!

[Nebelwerfer41]

BigCrunch wrote:

oh and dr.rant just has a hateon for fireball...

This statement shall anger the theorycrafters...