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#1 obsid Oct 05, 2014 6:43:58	Did Heart of the dragon queen with 7 people yesterday (6 of whom were level 1), took about 7 hours or so.  All of this occured without a long rest:   Fight 1, 8 Kobolds: 200 XP Fight 2, 3 Kobolds and 2 cultists: 125 XP Fight 3, 2 cultists and 1 acolyte: 100 XP Fight 4, 2 swarm of rats: 100 XP Fight 5, 6 kobolds and 2 cultists: 200 XP Fight 6, 1 acolyte, 4 kobolds, 1 ambush drake: 250 XP Fight 7, 1 guard 3 cultists and 4 kobolds: 200 XP Dragon Attack: 50 XP per person x 7 = 350 XP Prisoners: 25XP per person x 7 = 175 XP Fight 8, 7 cultists 7 guards: 350 XP + 50 XP per person x 7 = 700 XP Fight 9, 1 dragonclaw, 2 cultists, 6 kobolds: 400 xp + 100 XP per person x 7 = 1100 XP Champion: 50 XP per person x 7 = 350 XP   (nearly soloed the champion by the way, it was great! I hit him with Wrathful smite which made him frightened of me, and you cant walk close to the source of your fear, and then I just stepped back and used a reach weapon as all his attacks other then the breath weapon are in a 5 foot range)   Total XP: 3850 XP / 7 = 550 XP per person Total XP awarded: 300 XP.   Why? Because they ran it as an "encounter" module instead of a home game everyone in the group gets almost half the XP they would normally get for the NPC's they fought.  This is silly, please fix it.  I'm not saying eliminate the XP cap, but make it something unlikely to be hit usually (like 600XP or so in the first epsode).
#2 Uthrac Oct 05, 2014 13:55:19	Sounds like you ran this as "Casual Play" rather than Encounters ... which requires 2-hour sessions on Wednesday nights.
(Reply to #2) obsid	Uthrac wrote:
#4 HeresyDM Oct 05, 2014 16:22:55	If it wasn't on Wednesday and was a single 7 hour session it wasn' t an Encounters session.
#5 Uthrac Oct 06, 2014 6:02:06	Exactly. There's nothing to fix.   Players should report Hoard of the Dragon Queen Episode 1; 550 XP; 10 downtime days; 1 reknown point.