Gaining Experience

What actions will be rewarded with experience points

The result of gaining experience points is to progress up levels within your character class. This gives the character additional hit points, skills, spells, improved abilities, etc. And this, along with participating in the evolving story, is a key goal in playing a campaign character.
To gain experience, the character must take actions, handle challenges, use skills, learn new things, cast spells and engage in combat or conversation, etc. The DM will take note of all these elements and the character who performs them during game play, and the results will be applied to the appropriate character experience points sheet.
Experience points will only start to accumulate from the moment when the characters start to interact in the game play. Anything identified in the player introduction will not be included.

Breakdown of XP Allocation

Action	XP value	Notes
Combat	HP x HD	Per 1HP of damage x Hit Dice of foe
GP	1	Per 1GP
Loot	30	Per Item. Split if shared. So if 2 items gained for party of 6, each character would get 10. Monetary values of items are not relevant to XP
Spell Cast	10 / 20 / 40 / 80 / 160 / etc.	Level 0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / etc.
Skill Success	5 / 10 / 20 / 40 / 80 / 160	DC 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30
Successful Ability	5 / 10 / 20 / 40 / 80 / 160	As per skill DC, also applies to race/class abilities
New Species	20	Per specific type, so Woodland Kobold is different from Cave Kobold
New Significant NPC	20	Per NPC
New Ability	20	Such as fishing, dice game
New Item	20	New item refers to one that the character has never encountered before
New Location	20	Significant location, ie village, town, city, cave, encampment, shrine
Reward	1	Per 1GP of reward value, character's share of
Challenge	5 / 10 / 20 / 40 / 80 / 160	As per skill DC, Challenge DC is higher value
Interaction	5 / 10 / 20 / 40 / 80 / 160 / 320	As per skill DC, but where skill not used, and player specifies special interaction (discretionary)