darksoul
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Post by darksoul on Nov 7, 2008 11:01:36 GMT -5
Soz, um. I started playing one yesterday, and i was having alot of fun just smacking around wolves. Now, when i reached about 1000 xp, they dropped from 12 xp per kill, to 7. i asked a dm and he said that he thinks that there is an xp penalty on them because they get alot of bonuses, and a tad over powered as are tieflings. So, is this true by chance? How exactly does this penalty work? Any chance it'll be implimented to other, stronger races like the Earth Genasi?
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Post by DM Sir Carnifex on Nov 7, 2008 12:52:28 GMT -5
Actually, I think I misunderstood you. You said you XP dropped by half and I thought you meant the XP your character had, not the XP he was gaining. When you reach 1000 XP (ordinary leveling XP) the XP you gain from killing enemies drops automatically. So this has nothing to do with the race of the PC.
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Post by dyndrilliac on Nov 7, 2008 15:58:50 GMT -5
Right, it has to do with the ECL, or level adjustment. Aasimars have a level adjustment of +1, so they level a little slower than humans, half elves, dwarves, and so on. Tieflings and Genasi also have a +1 adjustment. This is to balance them out due to inherent special abilities and bonuses. Drow have an adjustment of +2, and level much more slowly (requiring a whopping 6000xp for the first level progression), and Deep Gnomes have an adjustment of +3 (10000xp for the first level) - be prepared to grind for a while.
Additionally, when you reach the amount of XP required for a race without a level adjustment to level up as a race with an ECL, the XP gets scaled down as if you had leveled up.
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darksoul
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Post by darksoul on Nov 8, 2008 2:39:19 GMT -5
Mmkay, doesn't seem to explain, why i'd get 32 xp for one kobold, and 17 for the next. But either way, i was guessing that. Also, that doesn't happen with Genasi's, i played a air one for a bit, and never saw that occur.
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Post by DM Sir Carnifex on Nov 8, 2008 2:42:39 GMT -5
If you were in a party, killing the kobold yourself would give you more XP than if your party member did it.
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Post by Tiefling on Nov 8, 2008 9:10:37 GMT -5
Mmkay, doesn't seem to explain, why i'd get 32 xp for one kobold, and 17 for the next. But either way, i was guessing that. Also, that doesn't happen with Genasi's, i played a air one for a bit, and never saw that occur. As I've been recently - grinding - I've noticed how some monsters do indeed give more exp than others. For example when trying to reach the third level dwarf bandits gave 69 experience points each while the two other kind of bandits gave only about 46. So, maybe defeating the kobold in question was simply deemed as easier feat than the other. |
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Post by darksoul on Nov 8, 2008 10:49:51 GMT -5
i was by myself at the time, and i think its just a minor flaw in the script. Being as it usually happened as i was tearing through a small horde of the kobolds.
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Post by Raist on Nov 10, 2008 22:30:24 GMT -5
I'm playing an Aasimar, and i know for sure my XP drops follows my level up's, so monsters give me the same XP untill the point i DING!  I am under a -20% multiclass XP penalty as well thou, I don't know if that would affect it. |
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