W T H?? 2 exp for a Minotaur? 52 exp for a Battle Devourer???

you also seem to get only half the XP if you have a familiar

you also lose 20% of your xp awards for each multi-class beyond first if yyou're using non-favoured classes for your race

[Grindar Silvermane]

Originally posted by Jim: There has definately been an XP cut since version 1.19. First time through using 1.19 I finished the game at level 19. Now, using every little XP trick I know and completing *more* quests that the first time, I'm going to be lucky to hit level 16. The XP system has been changed somewhere along the way.

I don't see what all the fuss is about. I have played through the game as a single class sorcerer on core rules setting and when I entered chapter three I was already at level 17, going close on 18. I did do all side-quests so that may have been of influence, but I was already playing version 1.22 from the start of chapter 2. I did notice that my henchman (Linu being the only one npc I used after chapter one) tended to be leveled down at the start of each chapter. And I mean leveled down a lot as in about 5 or 6 levels of difference between my pc and her.
I do think that the challenge ratings do seem to be a bit strange at times: having killed a fair score of "CR: Impossible" while hardly breaking a sweat and nearly being done in by "CR: Effortless" or "CR: Moderate" in other cases.
I fail to see the logic in that, but hey I'm Chaotic and I like it.