Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback The Spider Matriarch should be worth more than 25 xp

The Spider Matriarch can be a difficult fight especially for newer players.

Considering the experience value awarded for creatures with a quarter of her hit points and no special rage mechanics she should definitely be worth more than 25 xp.

Can't say I remember how much XP is given but clearly 25xp is too little.

It's a bug. In earlier versions reward was 120 xp. But now something goes wrong ...

I was kind of shocked when I seen the XP. The last couple play throughs I didn't pay attention but this last one I only need like 100 or so XP to level up so when I checked I was extremely disappointed, I'm sure its a bug though.

not like 120 xp is any better, i miss bg 2 big numbers xp. I get it, it's table top people need small numbers to do math, but still.

The XP scale in 5E is quite different from older version of D&D - you get less per encounter/creature generally. The old AD&D tables became almost exponentially larger, the newer scales seem to be more linear. And they want you to level more slowly, so they probably also scale back XP awards (mainly because there are so many critters to kill and you get things like exploration XP, I guess?)

The Spider Matriarch is lvl 4 and XP for monster on this lvl is around 1100 xp.
Divided by four, that would be 275 xp.

I think 200 xp would be still reasonable, but 25 xp is ridiculous.

Yep, 25 XP sounds like a bug - I'm sure I got more...unless it is tied to relative challenge rating and if you are level 5 (possible in EA) vs CR 4 matriarch (assuming that is her CR) then you may get much less?