Questions about the Assassination of Lodriss quest

Hi
I would assume that you would get EXP (not many, but some) for completing the quest. One thing I should point out: if the person talking to Skole to get the quest has an Intimidate skill of 10 or higher, you can intimidate Skole into giving you a +2 Shield. By the way, this quest is doable by parties of any alignment. I always run CG or NG parties, and I always reveal the assassination plot to Lodriss, tell Skole that I told Lodriss and let the fighting begin. This time around, when I revealed the plot to Lodriss, I had the dialogue option of "Don't worry about Skole, I'll take care of him" (or words to that effect), whereupon she replied something like "Try not to destroy all the furniture".
The Royal Canadian

 

FYI,
the best option in terms of XP is to botch the quest by passing 3 days, and getting the special wilderness encounter.

 

Whoa wilderness encounter? Now I need to know what happens.

 

whoa, what a flashback. allyx, cpt crunch...i've not see them post in a while. zebbadee.
yah, i've never done that one. I usually get over a 1000 xps for that encounter for each pc (party of 2 or 3)
i'm assuming skole has a possee with him and more loot

 

I can confirm - it is!

 

Hi Ted
My vote is to leave the quest CRs in KoTB right where they are. I will confess it's been a while since I last played KoTB (my 9 month old Vista laptop doesn't want to activate KoTB for some reason), but I seem to recall being able to reach 6th level with the quests available in 1.11 (no visits to the caves), so I don't think anyone is going to need an Exp boost.
The Royal Canadian

 

Ted -
I imagine you're joking, because getting XP from a CR1 quest is equivalent to killing a CR 1 monster:
300 XP * XP mod / number of party members
Which amounts to 42 XP for a party of 5 characters, playing with a 0.7 XP mod.
You can try reducing the CRs to -1 if you really want. (that should quarter the XP - at least it does for monsters)

 

Thanks Ted -- that may well have been the case. I mainly just wanted to point it out in case you guys thought it didn't sound like it was working as intended.

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Heh ... guess it could use a 'Warning: Includes token beefcake' label.

By the way, Ted, I was glad to see the good news you posted on the Keep thread.