Handing out Experience Points

[Bhurano]

Hi there,

currently my group is done with the "Darkest Hour" which will be followed up by "Cleansing of Black Spur". Unfortunately since beginning playing FC I used to hand out levels in certain intervals... shortly before The Darkest Hour I decided to use XP again. Mostly because some want levels fast, others slower and I don't want to be caught in arguments... so anyone can be happy.

Nevertheless... during the calculation of the xp I think that some old habit of D&D reared its head. Since they slaughtered their way through the adventure - no sneak, and generally more combat heavy - they racked up quite the ravener body count. Something in the 40 to 50 raveners.

Since this isn't D&D you don't take the number of slain raveners and multiply it by threat level, right? Seriously, I hope I am on the right track... otherwise the numbers seem weird to me.

As always any opinion is appreciated.

[riderv3]

Howdy! I think XP calculation for Standard adversaries is Standard NPC XP x Threat Level x Number of Mobs defeated, where 1 mob = # of PCs including Personal lieutenants and Animal Partners. At least that is how I've been doing it.
Hope this helps!

[Morganti]

How many people in the party?

for the sake of easy math examples...
Lets say party of 5 people, that is 8 packs of Raveners.
65 XP for each Pack of Raveners..times the adventures threat level, again, for easy math, Im going to assume level 1 adventurers.
5 Level 1 Characters on a Menace II adventure have a TL of 1.
65xp per pack defeated times the adventure threat level, + the story XP rewards they completed, should give you a much lower number than you are seeing right now.

for just the Raveners it would be 325xp per player.

[Sheena-Tiger]

Hi there,

as one of the guys involved in crushing a lot of undead heads... we are 2 Heroes, each level 3 right now and barely have survived the special characters, 2 times very near death

We were mostly lucky, acting first, getting not that much hits and a GM who forgot some feats at the first fights.

[Morganti]

So 4875 XP for 50 Raveners, (packs of two, TL of 3) Per party member.  Plus story awards. They are now level 5 for Cleansing of Black Spur

[Bhurano]

Thank you for the help, guys.

I overlooked the part with the mobs... now it works out.

Thanks again.