Experience Points

As your character goes on adventures and overcomes challenges, he or she gains experience, represented by experience points. A character who reaches a specified experience point total advances in capability. This advancement is called gaining a level.
The Character Advancement table summarizes the XP you need to advance in levels from level 1 through level 20, and the proficiency bonus for a character of that level. Consult the information in your character's Class Description to see what other improvements you gain at each level.

Character Advancement

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Experience Points	Level	Proficiency Bonus
0	1	+2
300	2	+2
900	3	+2
2,700	4	+2
6,500	5	+3
14,000	6	+3
23,000	7	+3
34,000	8	+3
48,000	9	+4
64,000	10	+4
85,000	11	+4
100,000	12	+4
120,000	13	+5
140,000	14	+5
165,000	15	+5
195,000	16	+5
225,000	17	+6
265,000	18	+6
305,000	19	+6
355,000	20	+6

Experience Points from Combat

The number of experience points (XP) a monster is worth is based on its Challenge Rating. Typically, XP is awarded for defeating the monster, although the GM may also award XP for neutralizing the threat posed by the monster in some other manner. Unless something tells you otherwise, a monster summoned by a spell or other magical ability is worth the XP noted in its stat block.

Experience Points by Challenge Rating

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Challenge	XP
0	0 or 10
1/8	25
1/4	50
1/2	100
1	200
2	450
3	700
4	1,100
5	1,800
6	2,300
7	2,900
8	3,900
9	5,000
10	5,900
11	7,200
12	8,400
13	10,000
14	11,500
15	13,000
16	15,000
17	18,000
18	20,000
19	22,000
20	25,000
21	33,000
22	41,000
23	50,000
24	62,000
25	75,000
26	90,000
27	150,000
28	120,000
29	135,000
30	155,000

Other Experience Awards

Awarding experience is up to the GM. Based on the type of play the GM wants to emphasize, they may award experience for a wide variety of in-game player actions.
Depending on this play emphasis, here are some player character actions that could and could lead to experience awards, and guides to how much experience might be appropriate.
Plot awards:

• Minor plot milestone: 50 - 500 XP
• Major plot milestone: 100 - 1,000 XP
• World-shaping plot milestone: 2,000 XP - 10,000 XP

Character awards:

• Coming up with a clever idea: 10 - 500 XP
• Successful skill check: 10 XP
• Successfully passing a Skill Challenge: 50 - 200 XP / party member
• Mastering a Training Regimen: 100 XP on success
• Learning secret information: 100 XP / level of rarity of the secret.
• Successful Negotiation with an NPC: 10 XP + ½ * the XP value that NPC on the Challenge Rating chart.

Spellcasting awards:

• Successfully casting any spell: 1 XP / spell rank
• Learning a new spell: 10 XP / spell rank (wizard only)
• Attaining Mastery of a new spell: 50 XP / spell rank

Research and crafting awards:

• Research: 10-10,000 XP
• Item Crafting: 50-50,000 XP

Grand strategy awards:

• Commanding units and armies to a successful victory: 100 - 2,000 XP
• Managing property: 1 XP / month for every square mile you control, + 1 XP for every GP spent to improve your property.

Exploration awards:

• Successfully exploring a 1 mi x 1 mi hex: 10 XP
• Successfully exploring Masters ruins (not plot-connected): 100 - 1,000 XP
• Disabling a complex trap: 650 - 21500 XP
• Looting treasure: 1 XP / gp looted and for every item or art object once appraised