Question about Experience

[Clockwerk009]

I bought the Beginner Box some time ago, so I would be able to play DnD with my friends again. Nobody wanted to GM at the time and I was willing to take one for the team. It was the first time I ever GM anything, only get small tidbits of how I'd see others do it themselves. Now, they ALL want to run through own games after the huge success of the campaign!

But enough of that, I just finished the campaign the box gives you with a couple of my friends. But I'm very much confused about how to distribute experience and when/if they actually leveled up or not. So I was wondering if someone could explain to me how experience gain and distribution works.

The group consisted of the normal party: Fighter, Cleric, Rogue, Wizard. But I, also, had a Sorcerer join the party as well. So, final total was five players.

[Cos1983]

Clockwerk009 wrote:

I bought the Beginner Box some time ago, so I would be able to play DnD with my friends again. Nobody wanted to GM at the time and I was willing to take one for the team. It was the first time I ever GM anything, only get small tidbits of how I'd see others do it themselves. Now, they ALL want to run through own games after the huge success of the campaign!

But enough of that, I just finished the campaign the box gives you with a couple of my friends. But I'm very much confused about how to distribute experience and when/if they actually leveled up or not. So I was wondering if someone could explain to me how experience gain and distribution works.

The group consisted of the normal party: Fighter, Cleric, Rogue, Wizard. But I, also, had a Sorcerer join the party as well. So, final total was five players.

There is an experience chart in the core rulebook (I guess that wasn't included the beginner box).

The basics of the chart is that for a part of 4-5 divide the total experience from the encounter by 4 and each player receives that.

To find out when they are supposed to level up refer to page 30 of the Core Rulebook.

[Niilo John Van Steinburg]

Clockwerk009, read the paragraph labelled Experience Points on page 15 of the Game Master's Guide. It explains how to add up XP and distribute it. However, it says to go to page 64 of the Hero's Handbook; that's supposed to be page 63, where there's a table that shows you how much XP a character needs for each level.

Congrats on the successfully run game! I love GMing - I love playing, too, but GMing gives so much more satisfaction. :o)

- Niilo