Experience point

From NWNWiki

Experience Points (XP) are an abstract measure of the experience, knowledge, and training that a PC gains while adventuring. You gain XP from beating monsters, completing quests, and in some modules it can also be gained from a variety of things from crafting to using your skills.

The amount of experience required for each level can be found in Level Progression (for levels 1-20) and Epic Progression (for levels 21-40).

The scripting formula used for monster XP awards is, according to Bioware, quite complicated, and though based on the D&D:3E system, takes into consideration many factors including (but possibly not limited to) party size/classes/levels, henchmen, summoned familiars, and monster Challenge ratings [1]. Some of this information is retrieved by the engine from the data files xptable.2da, racialtypes.2da, classes.2da and xpbaseconst.2da.

[edit] References

• Forum Post by Georg Zoeller in Bioware Neverwinter Nights Forums: Archives: Builders - NWN Scripting, 03 April 2004.