Post by Algolei on Apr 22, 2017 17:48:49 GMT
I've lost my way and am trying to remember what I used to know about this stuff....
DMG p.85 supposedly tells us how to calculate the XP for any given monster. Appendix E gives the XP awards, and generally it follows the system on p.85 (with several obvious errors, and a few less-than-obvious ones).
Then Dragon Magazine #80 has an article by Lenard Lakofka which gave a slightly different chart than the DMG had.
Are there any more published systems for calculating this stuff?
Here's why I'm asking: I've been trying to work out how the XP awards were generated in the Fiend Folio. Now as far as I understand it, the fellows working on the Fiend Folio were doing their best to stick to the system in the DMG, but occasionally I'll find an XP award that doesn't work -- for example, the mite and the svart [amongst others] are worth 5+1/hp even though they are 1-1 HD monsters and therefore should be worth 10+1/hp (it's as if the Fiend Folio folks had on hand a system whereby 1-1 HD monsters were worth a Base X.P. Value [BXPV] of 5 instead of 10). In other instances, some creatures with 5+1 to 6 HD are given an XP award of +7/hp when it should be +8/hp.
I'm trying to figure out what they had to work with.
DMG p.85 supposedly tells us how to calculate the XP for any given monster. Appendix E gives the XP awards, and generally it follows the system on p.85 (with several obvious errors, and a few less-than-obvious ones).
Then Dragon Magazine #80 has an article by Lenard Lakofka which gave a slightly different chart than the DMG had.
Are there any more published systems for calculating this stuff?
Here's why I'm asking: I've been trying to work out how the XP awards were generated in the Fiend Folio. Now as far as I understand it, the fellows working on the Fiend Folio were doing their best to stick to the system in the DMG, but occasionally I'll find an XP award that doesn't work -- for example, the mite and the svart [amongst others] are worth 5+1/hp even though they are 1-1 HD monsters and therefore should be worth 10+1/hp (it's as if the Fiend Folio folks had on hand a system whereby 1-1 HD monsters were worth a Base X.P. Value [BXPV] of 5 instead of 10). In other instances, some creatures with 5+1 to 6 HD are given an XP award of +7/hp when it should be +8/hp.
I'm trying to figure out what they had to work with.
