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#1 Storyteller31 Aug 27, 2014 5:32:03	How much XP do you award per creature defeated?  Is it based on the encounter difficuty or the monster's CR?   Would/should 6 skeletons be worth 50 xp each or 100 xp each because there are so many of them facing a 4 member party?   Six characters fought 20 creatures at once with a total XP value of 2250.  Would they get 2250 or 6750 (2250*3) because there were so many of them?   How does the Beginner Box and Hoard of the Dragon Queen award xp by CR or encounter?   I'm interested in chapter and verse answers rather than opinions at this time.   Thank you.   --Jason
#2 Alynn Aug 27, 2014 5:37:27	The answer is the individual monster's xp total is the amount of XP awarded, the mutiplier is only for difficulty purposes.   Dungeon Master’s Basic Rules Version 0.1 pg 57   3. Adjust Encounter XP Value Based on the Number  of Monsters. Based on the number of monsters in the  encounter, multiply the encounter’s XP value by the  matching multiplier from the Encounter XP Multipliers  table. Thus, if you have an encounter with 4 monsters  in it, multiply the total XP value of the encounter by  2 for the purposes of determining how difficult the  encounter is. This doesn’t change the actual XP award  the adventurers receive for overcoming the monsters,  just your calculations of how difficult the encounter is.